Firefox 1.5.0.6 release

growse · 4 Aug 2006 at 04:00

Zefan said:
Well now I have 2 windows open (I can't stand using tabs, don't ask why because quite frankly I don't know) and it's swallowing 554,212kb

Is that allocated memory, or used memory? Do you know what the difference is?

Zefan · 4 Aug 2006 at 04:03

Well all I know is that taskmanager's telling me my firefox.exe is using that much, it's now 646mb. It actually locked up for a few seconds when I clicked this thread, how ironic.

Kainz · 4 Aug 2006 at 04:55

Zefan said:
Well all I know is that taskmanager's telling me my firefox.exe is using that much, it's now 646mb. It actually locked up for a few seconds when I clicked this thread, how ironic.

What sort of sites are you accessing to have such high usage? Are you running a lot of extensions? I've been running FF and all its incarnations from day one and have never seen such high mem usage - ever.

Right now as I type this, I've got 7 ocuk tabs open, and FF is eating 70mb of ram which is typical. I've got 1.5gbs of the stuff so its never bothered me at all given that XP has brilliant memory management.

Zefan · 4 Aug 2006 at 05:01

Ok, well I restarted a new process of firefox seeing as mine was running so hungrily. I've refreshed ocuk and posted a few times, gone on youtube and watched a few vids - it's now eating 90mb already. Other things I go on are myspace and google... nothing special.

bledd · 4 Aug 2006 at 10:46

i've never seen high mem usage in FF

would running AV and something like windows defender affect it (diversly?) i don't run av because i stick to site i know

growse · 4 Aug 2006 at 15:14

Zefan, what extensions are you running? 500Mb is way above normal memory usage, even for the page caching feature (which, incidentally, you can turn off).

Most of the time, stupidly high memory usage in ff very quickly after loading it can be attributed to an extension with a leak. I've got 1.5.0.6 open, with 6-7 tabs, have had for half an hour and my mem usage is at 45Mb.

Kainz · 4 Aug 2006 at 17:10

Zefan said:
Other things I go on are myspace and google... nothing special.

Something is eating your ram, and I doubt it's strictly FF. Could be an extension or some craply coded website (see myspace) which is even enough to send my normally robust FF into blind spasms.