Reducing your memory usage in Firefox
ADVERTISEMENTSRyan on CyberNet news has a good post on reducing your memory usage in Firefox that explains which extensions have memory leaks and which will slow down Firefox’s performance.
Let me list a few of the extensions that cause these problems.
- IE Tab (memory leak)
- Session Saver (memory leak)
- ForecastFox (memory leak)
- Filterset.G Updater AND FlashGot used in conjunction will produce a memory leak
- FasterFox doesn’t have a memory leak specifically, but it will not help your Firefox performance.
- Tabbrowser (slows Firefox)
- FoxyTunes (memory leak)
Are you using any of these extensions?
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Posted on April 9th, 2006 | Category: Internet |
Keith Dsouza
April 9, 2006 at 10:17 am
Hey John would like to add another thats been a pain to me and i had to do some reasearch on my system to figure it out, its FoxyTunes, i don’t recommend it at all, its the biggest memeory leaker i have seen.
johntp
April 9, 2006 at 10:21 am
Keith- What does FoxyTunes do?
Keith Dsouza
April 9, 2006 at 10:49 am
Hey John, well FoxyTunes lets you play your media from firefox with the most popular players WMP, Real Winamp etc.
Well that’s great but whenever i used to open WMP from outside Foxy or from within Foxy, i used to get good music, here’s what bugged me.
Try using Foxy for this, open any player you want to listen the music in and then close the player by clicking the close button in that app, now press ctrl alt del and see that your CPU usage starts going up to 100% frequently, if you would like to see a detailed process tree please use Process Explorer which shows you which the entire tree where the process runs at.
johntp
April 9, 2006 at 10:55 am
Try downloading the latest version
Chrono Cr
April 10, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Foxytunes should be added to the list as well, I agree with Keith!
I did see this @ Digg. Nice post, I guess extensions make all the difference.
johntp
April 10, 2006 at 1:54 pm
Added FoxyTunes to the list
Keith Dsouza
April 10, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Hey thanks, its was a pain for me
johntp
April 10, 2006 at 3:51 pm
It’s a pain for all who use the extension
Shivaranjan
April 11, 2006 at 11:11 am
I never worried about the memory leak of firefox that’s because I have 1 gig of ram and with hell lot of extensios firefox seems to perform pretty decent for me … heh he…
johntp
April 11, 2006 at 11:48 am
Shiva- Great, but still watch out
Thilak
June 18, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Yes John, Even my Laptop has 1 gig of RAM, still i need to be watchful while installing extensions
Alex
October 10, 2006 at 11:40 am
- it sounds that your problem with FoxyTunes might have something to do with your local installation of WMP. In any case, the symptoms you describe don’t sound like a memory leak at all. Could you please drop us a note with a few details here, so we can investigate what you’re seeing?
- great post, thanks! A quick question - were you able to reproduce the problem with FoxyTunes that Keith was seeing before adding FoxyTunes to the list? Did you see a memory leak? It sounds like a local problem that only a very small percentage of users might be seeing…
We are committed to solving each and every reported problem, and appreciate the feedback and your help in identifying and solving such problems - thanks!
-Alex
FoxyTunes
JohnTP
October 10, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Alex- I am sorry, I have not tried FoxyTunes till now
I have contacted Keith. Let us see what he has to say.
Andrew Howell
November 13, 2006 at 6:16 am
Hi, this list is really useful, especially as i browse the internet on a laptop so don’t have a huge amount of memory so every little bit helps
p.s great a useful website