100% memory consumption in firefox

[Karl Larsen]

On 10/03/2010 11:04 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> Firefox consumes 100% memory while watching following web pages
> https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#label/ubuntu+list/12b6bfd6bd7b8b81
> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ravel
> http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en&q=ravel 
> <http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en&q=ravel>
> above 3 are the only pages that were open on my system.
>
> After reporting a problem in  a previous thread about 100% memory 
> consumption in firefox I disabled most of the addons.
>
> Harware
> Dell Inspiron 1440.
> Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit
>
> Firefox 3.6.8
>
> Extensions
>       Google Toolbar for Firefox 7.1.20100830L
>       TheFreeDictionarycom Community Toolbar 3.1.0.12
>       Conduit Engine 3.1.0.12
>
> Theme
>
>       Default 3.6.8
>
> Plugins
>       Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible;Totem)
>       VLC Multimedia Plugin(compatible Totem 2.30.2)
>       Shockwave Flash (10.1 r82)
>       QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.6
>
>
>
> It has become so difficult to stay in firefox that I am using chrome 
> to type this mail.
> I do not want to switch to any other browser why is this behavior of 
> firefox?
>
>
> --
> Tapas
>
         I have done this on my computer and it uses about 7 percent of 
the CPU and I have 6 GB of ram and it used just a tiny amount of this. I 
wonder how much RAM you have?

73 Karl





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