[NBLUG/talk] [WLUG] Firefox seems to eat up memory

[Dan Pritts]

As others have mentioned, flash can really eat the RAM.

I'd suggest the firefox flashblock plugin to prevent flash from
running except when you actually want it.

I've read that Firefox also aggressively uses memory in some cases
when you have a lot of tabs/windows open; it keeps the fully-rendered
version of the page in RAM so it doesn't have to re-render when you 
switch back to the tab.  Apparently this is somewhat memory intensive.

To deal with the leaks, a simple daily restart of firefox might be in order.  


On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:30:27AM -0400, Jack Smith wrote:
> I keep multiple tabs open on Firefox all of the time, switching back
> and forth and using them to check multiple sites.  Memory use slowly
> increases until after a week or so, I'm above 80%, at which point
> Firefox starts hanging.  If I close and restart Firefox I usually drop
> back down below 50% and everything is fine.  (This is why I suspect
> Firefox.)  If I ignore things until I'm above 90% I'll get to a point
> where everything starts locking up and I have to restart the machine.
> 
> This isn't a real problem, I just need to check things every so often,
> but I wonder if anyone else has run into anything similar?  I use
> Firefox 2.0.0.3
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.3)
> Gecko/20070417 Fedora/2.0.0.3-4.fc7
> 
> on Fedora 7, though the same thing happened with Fedora 6.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jack
> 
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