I don’t know what I’ve done to Firefox but it’s using a lot RAM at the moment. Anybody else have similar problems? I’ve heard that some Mac users are having problems also but I think that’s because of an existing bug. I’ll have to do a bit of investigating.
Firefox acting the bollox
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It does the same on my WinXP box at work. Remove any extensions and see if it helps.
Right after I posted the previous note, I remember a blog I read a week or 2 ago (can’t rem where but it was a Debian Developer). He talks about how much memory FF uses, it appears that FF keeps any images from any tab that are open in memory as uncompressed images. He did some experiments where he recompile FF to either use compressed images and to remove from memory cache and it reduced memory usage by 50% or so …
Aha, Slashdot has a mention about it:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/25/1817215&tid=154&tid=156
Hi Mick,
I removed a few extensions yesterday which I had just installed. It (along with a good sweep of my PC) seemed to work but at the moment it’s actually worse! It’s now 160432K, i’ve just 2 tabs open.
Thx for the link, I was reading that before, I visit slashdot almost daily
This might be something Moz’ll need to look into in future.