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 Post subject: Right, boffins ponder over this
 Post Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:26 pm 
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Firefox.

We all love it (most anyway ;)) BUT I have a pet peeve - I have about 20 tabs open atm and this is the screenshot from task manager:
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then when I quit:
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then when I restart it:
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it gets bigger from there? Why should FF use 1.4Gb of RAM just to display 20 tabs? :shock: Would understand if they ALL included streaming video or something but they're not.

WHY? :scratch:

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640K of ram should be enough for anyone.

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I've noticed it before too, just firefox being open it uses more and more RAM. Well it dosent anymore since i last upgraded.

Memory Leak? god knows, surely it makes it susceptible to buffer overflow attacks?

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 Post subject: Re: Right, boffins ponder over this
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What, exactly are your tabs displaying :o

I've just opened 20 tabs, loaded 20 pages, memory usage varies between 98-120 no cpu.


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 Post subject: Re: Right, boffins ponder over this
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on a couple of occasions ff3 has caused my pc to restart, which i wasnt happy about
and thats with just a few tabs open

opera ftw :thumbl:

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[QBS]Dr.Strangelove wrote:
on a couple of occasions ff3 has caused my pc to restart, which i wasnt happy about
and thats with just a few tabs open

opera ftw :thumbl:


Still quite happily using chrome myself, not had any problems with it so far.

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 Post subject: Re: Right, boffins ponder over this
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i noticed that ff3 struggles a little with flash

especially when veiwing HD youtube


and mac, turn off that nm indexing in services

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Chips=GCHQ= wrote:
What, exactly are your tabs displaying :o

Okay, 3 OGame tabs, two GCHQ forum tabs, 3 galaxytool tabs, 2 other forum tabs, OGame calculator site (JS), Takana's CR converter, Gamestats.org, a ogame clone (Xuniverse), Loldogs, my blog, myspace and 2 other tabs that relate to CSS menus in webpages.

A bit of flash but seriously :roll:

[QBS]Dr.Strangelove wrote:
i noticed that ff3 struggles a little with flash
especially when veiwing HD youtube
and mac, turn off that nm indexing in services

Done. :thumbl: Anything else that should be disabled? ;)

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UPDATE KIDS! \o/

It appears that FF3 has a limit setting in Linux but NOT Windows and Mac. (Checked my Panther Mac running FF 3.04)

This could possibly be due to the Ubuntu community putting in a FF3 Ubuntu add-on which (I believe) may fix the caching issue (because it's already set to this amount).

So, how to fix?
1) Open a new tab and type about:config and hit enter.
2) A dialog may appear saying something like: Here be dragons or This may viod your warranty, etc. Ignore this and click "I'll be careful, I promise".
3) Search for: Urlclassifier.updatecachemax and double click it.
4) Type in 104857600 and click Ok.
5) Restart FF.

This SHOULD keep it around 100Mb. If this doesn't solve the issue, try in Safe Mode and (by process of elimination) work out WHICH plugin is leaking.

So far, I have tried this for about 25 mins and it has made a major difference... but I'll keep an eye on it. If I find any plugins that leak, I'll post again. Source is here if anyone needs it. \o/ :cheers: :thumbl:

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 Post subject: Re: Right, boffins ponder over this
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UPDATE: Didn't fix the issue entirely with the current plug-in set I had enabled. So using "process of elimination" method to find out which one is bleeding RAM :shock:

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This never happens for me? :\

I said earlier that it was hogging RAM but it was never around the amount your getting.

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Mebe its your comp?

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it's because firefox sucks and has been pissing memory since...probably 2 actually, but got really bad when three came out. Can't wait to stop using it and get on to chrome, hurry up google!

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 Post subject: Re: Right, boffins ponder over this
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TheMacOne=GCHQ= wrote:

[QBS]Dr.Strangelove wrote:
i noticed that ff3 struggles a little with flash
especially when veiwing HD youtube
and mac, turn off that nm indexing in services

Done. :thumbl: Anything else that should be disabled? ;)


if quicktime isnt veiwing pics or playing music/vid then get rid of that too
same goes for msn
put the kettle on
Punkbuster A set to manual
make yourself a cup of tea


and OMG 73 processes :shock: :lol:

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[QBS]Dr.Strangelove wrote:
TheMacOne=GCHQ= wrote:

[QBS]Dr.Strangelove wrote:
i noticed that ff3 struggles a little with flash
especially when veiwing HD youtube
and mac, turn off that nm indexing in services

Done. :thumbl: Anything else that should be disabled? ;)


if quicktime isnt veiwing pics or playing music/vid then get rid of that too
same goes for msn
put the kettle on
Punkbuster A set to manual
make yourself a cup of tea


and OMG 73 processes :shock: :lol:


:lol: :lol: :lol:

Just noticed that too, what services are you running? :shock:

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 Post subject: Re: Right, boffins ponder over this
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[QBS]Dr.Strangelove wrote:
if quicktime isnt veiwing pics or playing music/vid then get rid of that too
same goes for msn
put the kettle on
Punkbuster A set to manual
make yourself a cup of tea
and OMG 73 processes :shock: :lol:

<reads checklist>
I use iTunes heavily so it stays :thumbl:
I use MSN heavily so it stays :thumbl:
PB A set to manual? :scratch: Why?
Cup of tea made :cheers:
:shock: Uh.. yeah... :oops: should REALLY look into that :?
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:lol: :lol: :lol: Just noticed that too, what services are you running? :shock:

I'll start a new thread for this :thumbl:

When I mentioned before that the config change didn't fix the issue, I meant that it lowered the amount of RAM used from 1.4Gb-ish down to about half but the issue was that it was STILL leaking. It's hovering about 100-125Mb atm, which considering what it WAS, is MUCH better. :thumbl:

I'm down to 3 plugins left to enable and hopefully one of those is the culprit :shock: otherwise, I don't know what I'll do :shock:

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