Firefox 2.0 is a heavy leaker...

Hi! I´ve noticed for a while that Firefox 2.0 and/or an extension is leaking badly as shown:


Well, something is wrong here...

The question is: is it firefox 2.0 or some extension that is causing this? At this occasion I had at most five tabs opened and I have the following extensions:

Adblock Filterset.G 0.3.0.4
Adblock Plus 0.7.2.2
DOM Inspector 1.8.1
McAfee SiteAdvisor 24.0
NoScript 1.1.4.5.061030
PDF Download 0.7.6
QuickJava 0.4.2.1
RefControl 0.8.8
Stealther 0.98

If someone knows the answer...

Regards, C.

 

I don't have Firefox 2.0 yet.
The FF browsers do seem to leak memory anyway.

 

it could be adblock plus, but then again Firefox and high memory usage are two peas in a pod.

 

6 Tabs open.

 

BTW u don,t need PDF download, u can get almost same functionality from browser settings.

 

Get rid of those and you'll see the memory leak is gone.

 

I haven't been checking for memory usage with Firefox but noticed this post regarding NoScript. I only have Mr Tech Local Install + No Script running - is it wise to remove No Script completely?

 

Not wise ofcourse unless u have problem.

 

The workaround I have found to this memory problem, is to clear "Private data" manually from time to time. It releases memory instantly.

 

Robyn: Unless you are having your own set of memory leak difficulties, I would not recommend dumping any extension. Least of all NoScript. NoScript makes Firefox much safer. I run NoScript on 3 different PCs and I have never had any memory issues. For that matter, I never have memory leak problems of any kind. But I don't run programs in the background that I'm not using and I shut down/reboot daily...

**And as Antarctica notes, I clean out my FF data fairly often. (Except some bulletin board cookies. Like Wilders... )

 

Thank you I will keep NoScript enabled as I do feel safer being able to control this way.
I like to keep things clean and tidy and like others just keep cookies I need for forums

I was using IE7 in Vista but it does not compare to Firefox for me. I much prefer FF even though it took me a long time to even try the browser. The only install which is slower for me is the one on my laptop I think slow start up noticed there but with my main computers FF is fine.
Firefox makes running without scripts a lot easier than IE ever did or does.

 

If you're using NoScript you don't need that QuickJava

 

That´s correct, but I like to see if the possibility of running Java applets is closed or not.

When it comes to the other extensions, I´ve deleted Adblock Plus and Filterset G. NoScript is to valueble to get rid off. By running with five tabs open for about two hours, it looks like this:



The memory usage is half of before, better than nothing I suppose. But maybe it´s to difficult to get rid of/correct the code that leads to the amount of leaking considering the syntax they are using (no garbage cleaning...), and the composition of the design/coding organisation regarding the project.

Regards, C.