Closed Bug 337136 Opened 18 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Mozilla eats a lot of memory.

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
critical

Tracking

()

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: jan, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: closeme 2009-06-26)

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; nl; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; nl; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

More than 90Mb after some minutes. This slows down my system considerably. This happened after the latest update. Mozilla starts at about 60Mb and keeps on growing even when doing nothing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla. With Google toolbar.
2.Start Windows taskmanager.
3.Look.

Actual Results:  
System slows down due to huge memory usage of Mozilla.

Expected Results:  
Behave properly. Like Internet Explorer for instance.

My PC has 196Mb memory and a P III processor. Which was always adequate for using Mozilla.
Try new profile with no extensions. See: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/memusage.html
Could you provide detailed steps to reproduce? We really can't do much with this report. Did you try save mode (http://kb.mozillazine.org/safe_mode)?

On the other hand, I can *easily* push Firefox' memory consumption to 90 MBytes. Please see bug #368971 for instructions how to do it. Did *you* install an additional dictionary?
do you still see problem if you use current beta, latest version of all plugins (for example flash v10 - check using about:plugins), java (1.6_0_13), etc
started in safe mode
 https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode
- latest beta
 http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
Whiteboard: closeme 2009-06-26
No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please report back with the above steps.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Antique problem, please close.
Resolution: INCOMPLETE → INVALID
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