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Originally Posted by st0ned
Well, I didn't take a screenshot when it was really up there. Just restarted a bit ago and have minimal tabs open, but I am talking about this:
Earlier when I restarted it was over 1,500,000k. When it gets high FF lags out often, ill click a link and get the spinning circle (waiting icon). I am always researching stuff so hate to always have to close down tabs or restart every time FF starts to lag up. |
Well , as people above wrote, consider switching to Chrome.
If you want to keep FF (too customized), the most effective cleanup of FF is:
- backup data of you old profile
manual - http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/...ur+information , http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferri...file_-_Firefox
with an addon - http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
- add a new, clean profile to FF: run firefox -p in command prompt or "Run", close FF
- copy basic profile data (second link above) to your profile.
- run FF with new profile, see if problem persists
- if it works, start importing extensions and enabling them one by one and watch CPU and RAM usage. Don't forget plugins (Flash, Silvelight, etc) can cause crashes / memory leaks as well
This process is very lengthy, can take up to 2 hours depending on your profile settings, but if you need to keep FF and get this solved, this is the most reliable in regards to identifying problems.
A very good article on this is also
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak
Sorry if I confused you , but this stuff is kinda extensive
