Memory Leak Firefox....worse

[bman]

everyone knows it, blah blah

it didn't bother me too much because i have a fast system.

I was getting from 60,000kb up too 100,000kb....which ya know is alot but with my system no problem (even though a browser shouldn't use that much).

Now i have been getting up too 400,000kb, if i don't close it for awhile.

I think its getting worse, I have tryed those about:config tricks and all that but nothing helps....ARNIANIIAUNA HELP

[darknessgp]

I have to agree as well. I've noticed that Firefox seems to be a big RAM hog. Even to the point that I have to close it every few hours. Also, a known issue is if you are running FasterFox add-on do not run in turbo mode. That is a known memory leak problem... but even without that it's getting sad.

I have mine set to only take up a max of 60 mB of RAM but it regularly and usually is over that limit.

[lsman11]

for each tab you open, it definitely keeps a lot of data around, i believe for caching purposes in case you close it and go back, 'restore session', etc

there should be an article or option somewhere that we can tweak to keep ffox memory at a controlled state... prob have to limit number of tabs and have some auto clean cache thing going

i doubt its a memory leak, but they just hang onto object references longer than we are used to

[-mk-]

I hear you on the annoyance of FF memory. Unfortunately, it's not a leak at all, but a feature (don't you just love these?). From "Inside Firefox (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009749.html)":

"To improve performance when navigating (studies show that 39% of all page navigations are renavigations to pages visited less than 10 pages ago, usually using the back button), Firefox 1.5 implements a Back-Forward cache that retains the rendered document for the last five session history entries for each tab. This is a lot of data. If you have a lot of tabs, Firefox's memory usage can climb dramatically. It's a trade-off. What you get out of it is faster performance as you navigate the web."

I say they can have the "feature" back. +100MB RAM (and up to 400MB) is crazy.

[bman]

so there is really nothing to do about it, unless they change something. I like to keep firefox running at all times, but I guess I can't keep doing that.

[_sorrow_]

Yeah, i've noticed this problem too -- sucks when you get 2 browser windows going, with no less than 10 tabs in each!

Either way, right now my main concern is the fact that my router still isn't working :mad:

[xibalba]

You can turn it off in the about:config, I believe.

[bman]

You can turn it off in the about:config, I believe.

yes but how and where....

[xibalba]

browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers it is set to -1 , set it to 0 I think that is it