Firefox Memory Leak?

andy_mk3 · 18 May 2011 at 01:31

As above it keeps using silly amounts of memory after a couple of hours use. Any idea what could be causing it?

Version 4.0.1 installed.

Thanks.

Mattus · 18 May 2011 at 01:47

Which extensions do you have installed?

blackn3r · 18 May 2011 at 04:38

POST 4

andy_mk3 · 18 May 2011 at 10:57

blackn3r said:
POST 4

Thanks I've done that, will see how it goes. The first one was set to around 104,000, set it to 15,000 now.

andy_mk3 · 19 May 2011 at 22:51

Tried that and it's back up to using 1.3gb again! Nevermind I'll just close it and open it until I can be bothered to find out which add-on might be doing it.

JimAroo · 19 May 2011 at 23:10

FF does use a lot of RAM, but shouldn't use that much.. I've got 1 tab open, yet it's using 284MB of RAM.

Azuse05 · 19 May 2011 at 23:33

Disable extensions, go through one by one.

andy_mk3 · 20 May 2011 at 01:51

JimAroo said:
FF does use a lot of RAM, but shouldn't use that much.. I've got 1 tab open, yet it's using 284MB of RAM.

Yeah I know, I don't mind it using RAM but it gets to a point where it slows down and freezes so something not right.

Azuse05 said:
Disable extensions, go through one by one.

Yes I will when I can be bothered, there's a few