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David Ford wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4643F299.1020908@blue-labs.org" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">I used to love FF, now it's just a cpu/ram hog that usually gets killed
by the kernel every 36-48 hours for taking about 2G of ram.
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Memory leaks in Firefox (as opposed to high memory consumption
generally, which as Bradley notes is often caused by Firefox's
agressive caching of tab history) can be caused by bugs in core code,
but they often come from extensions and web pages.<br>
<br>
The latter have become more common since the advent of web-based
productivity applications like gmail and Zimbra that people leave open
in tabs for hours, days, or weeks.<br>
<br>
One way to check for extension leaks or certain core Firefox leaks is
to install the <a href="http://dbaron.org/mozilla/leak-monitor/">Leak
Monitor extension</a>. But that extension still won't catch memory
leaks in web pages themselves, so it won't detect that f.e. gmail or
digg uses more memory over time.<br>
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-myk<br>
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