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Currently using Firefox 3.5.3, and getting just slightly ticked off. It doesn't leak memory, it bleeds. Just starting it up has a 50+ meg memory impact and gets worse as it goes along. After a while I start getting all kinds of low memory warnings and the box gets slow as sub-arctic molasses. It's no help at all that lots of websites seem bent on locking it up for good with what seems to be a couple of megs of all kinds of scripts.
Is there some way of alleviating this, or some alternative browser with a lighter foot-print? IE doesn't count, I'd rather stay with FF but will consider a change if needed.
Running it on w2k with 256 megs. Old, but works fine with most everything but FF.
Is there some way of alleviating this, or some alternative browser with a lighter foot-print? IE doesn't count, I'd rather stay with FF but will consider a change if needed.
Running it on w2k with 256 megs. Old, but works fine with most everything but FF.
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I had a similar problem and even though I was always a big fan of Firefox, I decided the memory leaks (even in the latest versions) were unacceptable so I switched to Google Chrome. I have never looked back as it's by far the fastest browser around. Opera may be an alternative too.
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Not everyone thinks Firefox is a memory hog.This guy has done some testing and come to a different conclusion.
Firefox 3 Memory Benchmarks and Comparison
Firefox 3 Memory Benchmarks and Comparison
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Have you uninstalled and re-installed flash ?
Use the Adobe uninstaller tool here ....
How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control
I run something a bit better than w2k with 256MB RAM
, but my FF started eating up RAM as if it were starved. Flash update didn't help but uninstall using the above tool and fresh install did the trick.
Use the Adobe uninstaller tool here ....
How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control
I run something a bit better than w2k with 256MB RAM
, but my FF started eating up RAM as if it were starved. Flash update didn't help but uninstall using the above tool and fresh install did the trick.
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Upgraded FF, uninstalled and reinstalled Flash, general clean-up. Seems to be a lot better now. Still, it's running better than another machine with similar configuration except the processor is a 2 GHz P-4. Suspected reason for the slow-down is it's running XP.
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A memory leak occurs where a computer program allocates memory space for doing calculations, creating lists, data structures etc. using temporary named blocks or spaces of memory called variables or using memory pointers (e.g. as in C and C++). Once the action, calculation or whatever is completed, the program should register that the space is free to be used again.
A leak occurs when the program does not release this memory or the release fails and more and more memory is used. One symptom is that you eventually run out of Random Access Memory space when you try and run additional programs/applications and the computer needs to then page to disk. Symptoms are a hideously slow computer, out of memory warnings, disk light on almost full time and programs that simply won't run. Solution, shoot the programmer!
A leak occurs when the program does not release this memory or the release fails and more and more memory is used. One symptom is that you eventually run out of Random Access Memory space when you try and run additional programs/applications and the computer needs to then page to disk. Symptoms are a hideously slow computer, out of memory warnings, disk light on almost full time and programs that simply won't run. Solution, shoot the programmer!
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As he said.
A useful tool for spotting them - in later versions of Windows - is the Task Manager. It can with most versions be accessed by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del all at once (and once only!).
Then pick "Task Manager". Click on "Processes".
If you click "CPU" it will show you which processes are using most processor capacity, or on "Memory" ditto for memory. The click toggles from "largest first" to "smallest first".
If you see one process using more and more memory, that's one to suspect.
Every so often, I look at the list of what's running and stop the more obtrusive ones. MSCONFIG will allow them to be disabled - if they put themselves back after that, they usually get uninstalled. You do need to be a bit cautious doing that, not to remove stuff that is essential for running the machine. I find Apple and Google particularly keen on running all kinds of stuff without being invited. I've removed about 5 GoogleUpdaters in the past couple of weeks.
A useful tool for spotting them - in later versions of Windows - is the Task Manager. It can with most versions be accessed by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del all at once (and once only!).
Then pick "Task Manager". Click on "Processes".
If you click "CPU" it will show you which processes are using most processor capacity, or on "Memory" ditto for memory. The click toggles from "largest first" to "smallest first".
If you see one process using more and more memory, that's one to suspect.
Every so often, I look at the list of what's running and stop the more obtrusive ones. MSCONFIG will allow them to be disabled - if they put themselves back after that, they usually get uninstalled. You do need to be a bit cautious doing that, not to remove stuff that is essential for running the machine. I find Apple and Google particularly keen on running all kinds of stuff without being invited. I've removed about 5 GoogleUpdaters in the past couple of weeks.
