638416 - Unstable work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Grzegorz Koryga]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; pl; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110218 Firefox/3.6.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; pl; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110218 Firefox/3.6.14

I work every day with firefox and I have opened about 9 tabs with different kind of webpages. After some time firefox starts to freez for a few seconds. In the same time I can see that hdd is working hard. After some time everything works fine again but it repeads very often.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open at leat 9 tabs with different webpages where is a lot of graphics.
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Actual Results:  
After some time when I click on the tabs or explore the webpage, firefox freezez for a few seconds and I can't do anything

Expected Results:  
I should work smoothly without freezing.

Comment 1

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Could you see if the issue occurs with a new, empty profile:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic%20Troubleshooting#w_make-a-new-profile

Comment 2

[Grzegorz Koryga]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Could you see if the issue occurs with a new, empty profile:
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic%20Troubleshooting#w_make-a-new-profile

I've created new profile and now everything works fine. Proviously firefox used more than 400 MB of RAM memory and now it is about 150MB. I hope it won't change for a long time. Thanks!

Comment 3

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

If it helps, the problem was likely due to badly written addons/extensions; so make sure to only install addons you really need, as each one increasing Firefox memory footprint and startup time.

Comment 4

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

increases even