[SLL] Laughing down Firefox today at my work...

[Kurt Buff]

I don't use X on my *nix boxes, but I'll pipe up anyway.

Firefox is *tons* better than IE on my MSFT boxes, but it doesn't
manage memory well. I can't leave a browser open for very long (more
than a few days, as I would prefer) without it eating memory.

Whatever the cause, any page that does lots of refreshes (gmail, in
particular seems to cause the issue) memory just climbs, until I have
to kill FF and start it over.

I suppose it doesn't help that I have (usually) 20-30 windows open,
and many of those have several-to-many tabs open, but the real culprit
is the set of pages that auto refresh with lots of changing content.

Fortunately, it keeps session state, so after I kill it, I'll have
everything back the way I want it soonish.

Kurt

On Jan 8, 2008 6:34 PM, Mr.Scrooge <maximilian_bianco at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Xeno Campanoli <xcampanoli at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Say, today our weekly meeting included a two-man five minute lambast of
> > Firefox and it's memory usage problems.  Supposedly one fellow kept
> > firefox on his Windows system over the weekend and it had used some 6
> > gigabytes of memory.  Then he said that it reclaimed the memory in
> > windows after a few hours, so therefore it wasn't a leak.  I always
> > thought that was a leak, but perhaps that's another matter.
>
> It wouldn't be Vista would it? that would explain much of the problem.
>
> > Anyway, I know this doesn't sound "Linuxy", but Firefox, after all, is
> > one of the most well known and well-used of popular open-source
> > software, and quite frankly it often behaves even worse on Linux than it
> > does on XP for me, so I think it is a good topic of discussion.
>
> What distro do you have installed?
>
> > Does anyone know if there is some kind of agenda to handle firefoxes
> > memory and crashing problems?  Often if you continuously don't get no
> > respect, you are soon on the way out.
>
> You could always uninstall firefox if it doesn't work right. There are a few alternatives.
> how many people are experiencing problems with firefox? I haven't had it crash even once. I must
> live in the Bermuda triangle or something. I have heard of these issues but never actually seen
> one. I have used firefox on ubuntu, Open Suse 10.2 & 10.3, fedora 7 & 8 and winblows just to name
> the major ones but i have never had any problems. Curious....by a show of emails if everyone would
> be so kind....
>
> -Max
>
>
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