Firefox is a PIG on memory

[Matt Patterson]

I would consider busting out a memory profiler, but generally, I let 
other people clean up the messes they make. I had a job where I had to 
fix a leak in someone elses code, and that was horrible to say the 
least. As per other peoples posts it is a known problem, hopefully it 
will be fixed in upcoming versions.

While on the subject though, what are some good memory profilers for 
linux (my only experience was win32)??

Matt



Lionel wrote:

> Matt Patterson wrote:
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>> I have noticed that if I leave firefox open for a long time (week or 
>> more) that the memory usage on my machine just steadily climbs (swap 
>> and memory used). Even if there is only one firefox window open, the 
>> instant I close that window I can watch my memory usage drop 300mb or 
>> more. I like leaving many windows open (several per desktop with 
>> several tabs each) because that is how I organize my various 
>> parrallel tasks. A way to make firefox clean up after itself would be 
>> great.
>
>
> Yeah it seems to still have some memory leaks.
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>> Any ideas?
>
>
> download the source code and figure out where the memory leaks are. 
> You might be able to get a profiler or something to tell you what is 
> using all the memory.
>
> Lionel
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