Re: Firefox eating memory

On 27 Jun, 13:22, Alex Monro <nospamdeleteabusen...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Ian wrote:

My laptop started running rather slowly today. A quick shufty
indicated that firefox-bin was using 380MB (out of 512MB) of physical
memory and a further 175MB of virtual. That was for one window with
two tabs. Closing firefox did nothing, mainly because firefox-bin was
stil running and had to be killed manually.

Is this normal behaviour? Ubuntu 6.06, Firefox 1.5.0.12

I've noticed with every version of Firefox I've used, going back to the
original betas, that it seems to have an appetite for memory. I dunno
if it's a leak as such, or wether it's continually caching stuff.

I don't think its a leak (in the sense of memory just disappearing
from availability) because killing the process seemed to get it all
back.

Incidentally, my pet hate in the latest FF - 2.0.0.4 - the individual
close tab buttons on each tab. Far to easy to click by accident.

They annoy me too. Actually, what's really annoying is that they are
different on 1.5.0.12 (which I have on my laptop, because I haven't
got Ubuntu 7.04 working on it yet) and 2.0.0.4 (which I have on my
desktop). On the whole, I prefer the earlier ones - if I wanted
controls to move around relative to the window they affect I'd be
using a <spit> Mac.

Ian

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