In Windows XP, that opens the Task Manager. There are many ways to do this, but under Windows there's only one easy way that everyone has access to. Start by checking how much memory Firefox is using. Because a small number of people are struggling with this, I'm going to pass along a tip that has worked for some users, although I'm quite sure it won't work for everyone. I don't see an ever-escalating use of memory, but some other people have. What he is describing is a memory leak, and it sounds more serious on his machine than on some others. Does Mozilla think it's fixed this problem?"
I've searched the help forums without luck. If I use IE6 instead of Firefox, I have no memory problems. As soon as Firefox 1.5 came out, the memory problems began. I can see RAM usage via Task Manager going up and up and up until even virtual memory gets swamped. I experience the problem on a daily basis and it's been driving me nuts. "Not long ago you mentioned a memory hole problem in Firefox. I'm not getting as many messages as I once did, but they're still trickling in. That problem predates Firefox 1.5 though (as did the high memory usage).īut while Firefox 1.5 has been pretty clear sailing for me, not a day goes by when I don't get at least one e-mail from a frustrated Firefox user who has some mix of the problems I've described in the past, including exceptionally high use of physical and virtual memory, CPU usage that climbs to 100%, program hesitations and freezes, a launch failure that requires an operating system reboot or termination of the firefox.exe process in Task Manager, specific Web pages that don't load, and crashes. Well, there's one I've continued to see: Firefox takes absolutely forever to launch when initiated from hyperlinks in third-party apps such as e-mail and instant messaging clients. Despite that shortcoming, I haven't experienced any of the side effects detailed in my earlier articles starting when Firefox 1.5 was first released. This is a follow-up to earlier dispatches on the open-source browser.įirefox continues to be the application that's the single largest memory and virtual memory hog on all my PCs. Editor's Note: Online editorial director Scot Finnie has been using Firefox 1.5 since its release and has written about it extensively in Scot's Newsletter.
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