514521 - [KB Article] troubleshooting memory leaks

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(support.mozilla.org :: Knowledge Base Articles, task)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/*Crash+signature+-+memmove needs to link to such an article, and I think memory use is a common complaint on its own.

Ideas:

* How to tell if your problem (e.g. crash or slowness) is due to high memory use.

* How much memory Firefox is "expected" to use for a given number of tabs or session length, so you can tell whether yours is "abnormally high".

* How to do http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting in such a way that you can tell which steps have caused a leak to go away.

* A list of extensions that are known to cause memory issues.

* Workarounds such as "don't have so many tabs open" and "restart Firefox occasionally".

* An advanced section that links to 
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance:Leak_Tools.

These mozillazine kb articles might be good starting points:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Reducing_memory_usage_%28Firefox%29
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Aha, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/High+memory+usage already exists.  I'll see what I can add to it.