498408 - Takes up 1GB Of ram upon double clicking the firefox icon, will not open firefox either

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[nirquest]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b99) Gecko/20090605 Firefox/3.5b99
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b99) Gecko/20090605 Firefox/3.5b99

After installing firefox, and trying to launch it, computer gets extremely slow,
after bring up the taskbar, I see ram rocketing from 10MB to 400MB to 700MB to 1GB, PageFile at 2.4GB, before I shut down firefox.exe

firefox won't show up at all during this time, were talking about 10-20 seconds that this is happening!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install firefox hebrew from the main website
2. don't restart, launch it.
System specs:
C2D E8400 3.0GHZ
2GB Kingston 5-5-5-18 DDR2 800MHZ
Inno3D 9600GT 1024MB DDR3
500GB Seagate SATAII drive
LG Drive
Ezcool 450W
Gigabyte SLI motherboard



all default setings

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Can you please try to click on Firefox (Safe Mode), instead of firefox.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.12 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.