Just me or is Firefox leaking memory like a firehose?
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I'm running the latest firefox - 5 tabs up at the moment: 3 at codeproject (yes, I am addicted), one at sourceforge, and the last at a t-short place (long story). In the time it has taken to type this query - about 2 minutes - firefox has grown by 1mb in mem usage. Do you Firefox users see the same thing? On the weekends, I'll leave my laptop up the entire time - Firefox grows to almost 200MB. As for IE7, ewwwwwww. I upgraded from 6.0, and it crashes more now...
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charlieg wrote:
Do you Firefox users see the same thing?
Yes. And the memory leak is a commonly reported problem in FF. There is also an argument that it's not a leak but a feature. Another argument is that it's caused by extensions.
charlieg wrote:
As for IE7, ewwwwwww. I upgraded from 6.0, and it crashes more now...
It is still a Beta. Though, as it's very close to release this is somewhat disconcerting!
Kevin
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I'm running the latest firefox - 5 tabs up at the moment: 3 at codeproject (yes, I am addicted), one at sourceforge, and the last at a t-short place (long story). In the time it has taken to type this query - about 2 minutes - firefox has grown by 1mb in mem usage. Do you Firefox users see the same thing? On the weekends, I'll leave my laptop up the entire time - Firefox grows to almost 200MB. As for IE7, ewwwwwww. I upgraded from 6.0, and it crashes more now...
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams
A sad thing is that one cannot find a really good web browser on Windows platform. Opera is good but too many sites don't support it; IE is insecure and unstable; FF is a memory-leaking bloatware...
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I'm running the latest firefox - 5 tabs up at the moment: 3 at codeproject (yes, I am addicted), one at sourceforge, and the last at a t-short place (long story). In the time it has taken to type this query - about 2 minutes - firefox has grown by 1mb in mem usage. Do you Firefox users see the same thing? On the weekends, I'll leave my laptop up the entire time - Firefox grows to almost 200MB. As for IE7, ewwwwwww. I upgraded from 6.0, and it crashes more now...
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams
charlieg wrote:
As for IE7, ewwwwwww. I upgraded from 6.0, and it crashes more now...
Never had any crashes with it, but do get slowdowns when sometimes switching tabs. heh, ever notice how many different reviews M$ products get? for some its nerly perfect, for others its a reason to reboot the computer....
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I'm running the latest firefox - 5 tabs up at the moment: 3 at codeproject (yes, I am addicted), one at sourceforge, and the last at a t-short place (long story). In the time it has taken to type this query - about 2 minutes - firefox has grown by 1mb in mem usage. Do you Firefox users see the same thing? On the weekends, I'll leave my laptop up the entire time - Firefox grows to almost 200MB. As for IE7, ewwwwwww. I upgraded from 6.0, and it crashes more now...
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams
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Just you. Do you happen to work for Microsoft? In the propaganda division?
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
-H.L. MenckenJWood - are you being sarcastic/funny? If you are, haha, but if you are not, Lord no, I don't work for MS, and I certainly am not plugging one browser over another... they all have their warts. I was just astonished at how much memory was leaking from FF. As for IE7, well, IE has been crashing for me since 5.x, so it isn't anything new. And IE *does* consume HUGE amounts of memory... simple observations -- ymmv.
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams
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Just you. Do you happen to work for Microsoft? In the propaganda division?
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
-H.L. MenckenJWood wrote:
Just you. Do you happen to work for Microsoft? In the propaganda division?
Yeah, that's why he talked bad about IE. :rolleyes:
Regards, Nish
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Just you. Do you happen to work for Microsoft? In the propaganda division?
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
-H.L. MenckenAgain, it is hard to tell if you are really being serious here, but if so:
JWood wrote:
Just you
Hardly. I have never noticed it -- I am an obsessive-compulsive closer of windows that I am no longer using and never have more than 4-5 (average 2) open at a time so tabbed browsing doesn't appeal to me. I do however have many friends who, in the politest possible sense, have absolutely appalling browsing habits so they are all using Firefox for 'smallest target' security reasons. One friend is the complete opposite of myself and has upwards of twenty browser windows all tracking different sites/threads that are saved to be restored when the browser/computer restarts. If we are chatting over IM of an evening he will often go offline for a 'cleanup' because all the memory on has machine has been used up and absolutely everything is slowed down while memory is paged back and forth. You can tell when it is getting bad because his IM status keeps switching from offline to online till you have a screen full of alerts. He is at the extreme of the leak problems I've heard of - I won't go near his computer because I would only end up confiscating it - but other friends have complained that their computers run slower after they have been surfing the net for a while, even after they close down Firefox. Whether it is linked to extensions or not, the problem is with Firefox itself. It shouldn't allow bad things to happen to a users system. After all, isn't that the whole problem with Internet Explorer?
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JWood wrote:
Just you. Do you happen to work for Microsoft? In the propaganda division?
Yeah, that's why he talked bad about IE. :rolleyes:
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog -
I'm running the latest firefox - 5 tabs up at the moment: 3 at codeproject (yes, I am addicted), one at sourceforge, and the last at a t-short place (long story). In the time it has taken to type this query - about 2 minutes - firefox has grown by 1mb in mem usage. Do you Firefox users see the same thing? On the weekends, I'll leave my laptop up the entire time - Firefox grows to almost 200MB. As for IE7, ewwwwwww. I upgraded from 6.0, and it crashes more now...
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams
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Firefox works great for me. I upgraded to 2.0 RC1. BTW, the memory leaks in Firefox depends upon what kind of extensions you installed.
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Just you. Do you happen to work for Microsoft? In the propaganda division?
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Try Flashblock[^]. Flash is a bit of a pig, but unfortunately it's used all over the place now for ads. Flashblock lets you click to load animations that you really want, while blocking them by default.
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Whats worse are those Flash adverts that take up half of your precious CPU power :(
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Try Flashblock[^]. Flash is a bit of a pig, but unfortunately it's used all over the place now for ads. Flashblock lets you click to load animations that you really want, while blocking them by default.
-- modified by I Hax Life!! on 16:20 Friday 13th Smarch, 2038
Flash is bad.
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Again, it is hard to tell if you are really being serious here, but if so:
JWood wrote:
Just you
Hardly. I have never noticed it -- I am an obsessive-compulsive closer of windows that I am no longer using and never have more than 4-5 (average 2) open at a time so tabbed browsing doesn't appeal to me. I do however have many friends who, in the politest possible sense, have absolutely appalling browsing habits so they are all using Firefox for 'smallest target' security reasons. One friend is the complete opposite of myself and has upwards of twenty browser windows all tracking different sites/threads that are saved to be restored when the browser/computer restarts. If we are chatting over IM of an evening he will often go offline for a 'cleanup' because all the memory on has machine has been used up and absolutely everything is slowed down while memory is paged back and forth. You can tell when it is getting bad because his IM status keeps switching from offline to online till you have a screen full of alerts. He is at the extreme of the leak problems I've heard of - I won't go near his computer because I would only end up confiscating it - but other friends have complained that their computers run slower after they have been surfing the net for a while, even after they close down Firefox. Whether it is linked to extensions or not, the problem is with Firefox itself. It shouldn't allow bad things to happen to a users system. After all, isn't that the whole problem with Internet Explorer?
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20 open tabs. Piker. :) My home copy of Opera probably averages 30 something. I've got ~2 dozen always opens, and until it gets to about 40 the tab bar isn't cluttered enough to bother doing a cleanup.
I've left pandora.com open for 3 days straight and hit 400 Mb on FF. It stayed there, and never really went passed. Much longer and my computer starts to lock up though, even though there is more ram to be had if needed. No I haven't checked if IE does any better with the same application. meh.
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