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They told me the memory leak was fixed in Firefox 3
2008-06-24, 8:11 AM #1
This is some ****ed up repugnant ****.
[http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/3505/firefox3wtfxl3.png]
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2008-06-24, 8:22 AM #2
Haha, you know its bad when your browser leaves a bigger footprint than Photoshop.
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2008-06-24, 8:39 AM #3
Any circumstances we should know about? Extensions, visiting poorly written websites, etc?

I wouldn't be at all surprised if it isn't fixed, mind you.
2008-06-24, 9:05 AM #4
$100 on it being the fault of an extension or opening a 1GB text file >.>
2008-06-24, 9:18 AM #5
:/ I thought I was the only person having this problem. Glad I'm not.
2008-06-24, 9:24 AM #6
I really wish Opera would get a decent del.icio.us bookmarks thing so I could stop using FF.
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2008-06-24, 9:27 AM #7
Originally posted by Cool Matty:
$100 on it being the fault of an extension or opening a 1GB text file >.>


1GB text file???
You can't judge a book by it's file size
2008-06-24, 9:59 AM #8
What the hell have you been doing? Works perfectly fine for me, no ridiculous mem leaks like it used to.
$do || ! $do ; try
try: command not found
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2008-06-24, 10:02 AM #9
I don't know. This is on my machine at work, it's fine at home.
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2008-06-24, 10:03 AM #10
If this **** happens to me, I'm moving to opera. I've only stuck with FF for the idea, thus far.
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2008-06-24, 10:10 AM #11
I use a gazillion extensions :v:

[http://x.mzzt.net/0250.png]

I love it when people blame Mozilla for problems with non-Mozilla code on Firefox. Wait no I don't.

Someone REALLY needs to make an extension which monitors the CPU usage, startup times, and memory usage of other extensions. Then there could be like a database, and we could sort by bytes leaked per second or total bytes used, and chances are people like Emon and Rob would be using one of the top 5.

This time with all extensions disabled:

[http://x.mzzt.net/0251.png]

If your leak still occurs in Firefox safe mode, then we'll talk. Until then:

[http://www.mzzt.net/big/60/255/255/255/UR%20DOING%20IT%20WRONG.png]

2008-06-24, 10:15 AM #12
MORE LIKE MO$ILLA
[01:52] <~Nikumubeki> Because it's MBEGGAR BEGS LIKE A BEGONI.
2008-06-24, 10:22 AM #13
I'm not using any extensions. Firefox 3 gobbles up about a megabyte per page and never releases it.
2008-06-24, 10:27 AM #14
Originally posted by Jon`C:
I'm not using any extensions. Firefox 3 gobbles up about a megabyte per page and never releases it.


I just opened about 30 different tabs (30 different sites). Usage went up about 15MB. I just closed them again, and the usage went back to almost exactly where it was before.
2008-06-24, 10:30 AM #15
I had firefox open on this thread earlier, and it was running 80k kb.. closed it out, reopened. it ran about 50k.. then I open up a few tabs to get it up to 90k then closed all the tabs and it went to 70k. So I also notice some memory leakage.. IE runs better
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2008-06-24, 10:31 AM #16
oh BTW Emon, we have the same windows theme!
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2008-06-24, 10:33 AM #17
I use one extension, developer toolbar.

And I turn it off when I'm not using it. :\
2008-06-24, 10:44 AM #18
Originally posted by Z@NARDI:
I had firefox open on this thread earlier, and it was running 80k kb.. closed it out, reopened. it ran about 50k.. then I open up a few tabs to get it up to 90k then closed all the tabs and it went to 70k. So I also notice some memory leakage.. IE runs better


You forgot to take into account the undo close tab functionality, which it keeps in memory.
2008-06-24, 10:47 AM #19
I think mb brings up a good point.
"If you watch television news, you will know less about the world than if you just drink gin straight out of the bottle."
--Garrison Keillor
2008-06-24, 10:51 AM #20
Originally posted by Cool Matty:
You forgot to take into account the undo close tab functionality, which it keeps in memory.


Too be honest I didn't know that functionality existed
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2008-06-24, 11:08 AM #21
I'm permenantly at about 75k without any extensions.
nope.
2008-06-24, 6:29 PM #22
It fixed it for me ... I run like 12 extensions and I left at least 20 tabs open for about a day and it didn't go above 150MB

Also, 3.1 is reported to have over 300 more memory leak fixes.
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2008-06-24, 7:09 PM #23
75k? I think you mean 75m.

Also http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/24/2012204

2008-06-25, 2:15 AM #24
Firefox runs around 54MB for me. When I get multiple tabs going, it gets up to close to a hundred. But it goes back down after I close them. No problems for me.
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