Firefox behaving strangely..

TheSwede

TheSwede

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Hi all,

Got a bit of a problem with Firefox since I stated using Win7 64Bit, worked without a glitch in 32Bit.. Just today Firefox has crashed for me 3 times, in less then an hour. I have had Windows Task Manager open and notice that Firefox sometimes eats a lot of Memory.. :confused:

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It is is around 38,000 K if I just leave it with Google open, but as soon as I open another tab, and browsing, like having the OcUK forum open while browsing in the shop, then it starts to climb as shown above and then it drops down to about 140,000 K and starts climbing again, repeating it over and over again.. until it crashes :(

Anyone has any suggestions/solutions as to what might be the problem?
 
could be an addon with a memory leak, try running firefox in safe mode and use it without add ons, from a command prompt type this:

firefox -safe-mode

(or create a new shortcut to the exe and add the command line parameter to the shortcut)
 
Thanks davethe11, it looks like it was a memory leak. Tried the Firefox Safe Mode start and the memory was under 50,000 K most of the time, went up a bit the more tabs I opened. Then restarted Firefox in normal mode and the memory went off again so disable all addons and then turned them back one by one and it turns out it was my Skype Extension for Firefox that was "leaking" memory, have that one disabled now and hopefully it will all be fine from now on!
 
i wnet from firefox to opera 5 years ago cause of problems like this...i would not use anything else but opera,its great web browser:)
 
icysniper said:
I may be missing the point, but you could try using a 64bit verison of firefox??? :)

http://wiki.mozilla-x86-64.com/Firefox:Download
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Sorry to hijack the OP's thread but I was just wondering if I would keep my bookmarks and settings if I upgraded to the 64-bit version of Firefox?

If not then I'll leave it.

p.s. I didn't even know that Mozilla had produced a 64-bit version :o
 
Hello CurlyWhirly,

Profile data is stored in your User>Appdata store (C:\Users\YOUR NAME\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles) so bookmarks etc should still work but it's completely pointless using a 64bit version because no 32bit extensions will work, Flash doesn't have a 64bit version (and likely won't for ages, if ever) so online media is completely useless too.
 
It's also worth noting that it isn't an official build so you have no idea what you're getting. Depending what version they've used to build those, you might not even be able to go back to a release version of Firefox...

CurlyWhirly said:
p.s. I didn't even know that Mozilla had produced a 64-bit version :o
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They haven't, that's why it isn't mozilla.com/org.
 
mrk said:
Profile data is stored in your User>Appdata store (C:\Users\YOUR NAME\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles) so bookmarks etc should still work but it's completely pointless using a 64bit version because no 32bit extensions will work, Flash doesn't have a 64bit version (and likely won't for ages, if ever) so online media is completely useless too.
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Sorry for the delay in replying.

I don't think I'll bother then.

As it's so handicapped, it's a bit pointless releasing it IMHO.
 
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