Firefox 4 memory problems

Andrew1472

I have discovered, beyond any reasonable doubt, that with Adblock plus installed, the memory used by Firefox 4 increases dramatically sometimes to the point of making the browser unresponsive.

Even without that add on, if you are unlucky enough to visit certain quite innocent pages Firefox memory use will go to 2GB and, in my case, render the browser and PC useless until Firefox is shutdown.

There is a quite technical discussion of the problem here http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2115677 and another less technical one in this thread http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1452140
I thought it might help to make people aware of this.

In short, if you are having problems while using Firefox 4, either check it's memory use, shut it down and restart it, or try another browser. It might just save you hours of aggravation.

free4440273

clearly then, still not addressed in version 4/ always been an issue with FF relative to other browsers/ no problems whatsoever with the awesome Opera 11

debitcardmayhem

It's still not on General Release as AFAIK .

Andrew1472

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

It's still not on General Release as AFAIK .

It was released on the 22nd http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/?WT.mc_id=hp_1&WT.mc_ev=click) though, for obvious reasons, I don't recommend it until they work out the bugs.

Andrew1472

free4440273 wrote: »

clearly then, still not addressed in version 4/ always been an issue with FF relative to other browsers/ no problems whatsoever with the awesome Opera 11

This is in a different league to any Firefox 3 problems. I used that as my default browser without any trouble.
24 hours after starting using Firefox 4, I've switched to Chrome.
Sorry, I don't like Opera:D

free4440273

Andrew1472 wrote: »

This is in a different league to any Firefox 3 problems. I used that as my default browser without any trouble.
24 hours after starting using Firefox 4, I've switched to Chrome.
Sorry, I don't like Opera:D

u don't ? Thanks removed for such a comment :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:;)

peter_the_piper

Just checked taskmanager and FF4 is down as 26820 and plugin container (assume this is for FF) 22444. I'm on xp maybe this is to do with it. Gor it running on 2 comps and both fine.

free4440273

was just kidding Andrew/ I haven't updated as yet/ still using 3.6.16. but always been an issue with FF relative to/

thanks for the link and info :cool:

Andrew1472

free4440273 wrote: »

u don't ? Thanks removed for such a comment :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:;)

You got one out of two.
I'm using Avast because of your recommendation.
(and it is very good :T)

Thanks added above. (twice!):rotfl:

free4440273

Andrew1472 wrote: »

You got one out of two.
I'm using Avast because of your recommendation.
(and it is very good :T)

Thanks added above.:rotfl:

Oh, Avast is just superb sir :cool:

Andrew1472

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Just checked taskmanager and FF4 is down as 26820 and plugin container (assume this is for FF) 22444. I'm on xp maybe this is to do with it. Gor it running on 2 comps and both fine.

Good point. Mine is Windows 7 64 bit.
There certainly doesn't seem anything wrong with your numbers.