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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:21 am
by Christopher
Have you tried a fresh install and adding the extensions you use one at a time to see which is the problem? Honestly I have not heard of problems like yours except for virus infected systems.
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:02 am
by s.dot
No crashes here on vista.
Insane memory usage, of course.

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:06 am
by RobertGonzalez
I haven't yet. I may try it today. The circumstances are actually almost identical on both my work PC and my personal laptop. My wife has experienced some ill effects on her laptop as well.
But I think today I may uninstall and reinstall and see what that leads to.
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:09 am
by Christopher
Everah wrote:The circumstances are actually almost identical on both my work PC and my personal laptop. My wife has experienced some ill effects on her laptop as well.
Are they all networked and share a Windows network drive? If so they may all be infected...
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:41 am
by RobertGonzalez
Nope. My work computer is on my work network. Though I have notices that it seems sometimes that when I VPN settings on my laptop go wobbly. And my home computer is networked to my wife's through our router. So there is a possibility that there is something affecting all machines the same.
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:06 am
by aaronhall
For anyone who's as puzzled as I was about firefox's insane and unexplainable memory consumption, I came across this article a few days ago that tries explaining some of it:
http://blog.pavlov.net/2007/11/10/memory-fragmentation/
I've used opera for a few hours about 10 times, each time discovering something about ff that I couldn't live without. Ahh well... crossing my fingers for
FF3... I'll let you know how it goes
update: just downloaded ff3, and it's amazing.... render times are faster than opera, and the interface seems to respond quite a bit faster. Still a memory hog, but glancing at my system monitor, I think I actually witnessed it return memory to the heap!... I must have been seeing things...
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:56 am
by RobertGonzalez
I am so all over that.
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:04 am
by Rovas
FF has big problems with Flash Player, on my configuration it crashes when I look at many pages with flash ads (I don' t use AdBlock I had some very ugly moments with it).
To stop the memory consumption disable Firebug, WebDev, the rest of web development extensions, some other extensions older versions of Stumble Upon and edit certain fields in about:config.
I agree with you on Opera 9. I want some good or at least useful extensions from it like Firebug, JSView.
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:12 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
On my configuration, the flash player has never crashed...

. I suspect that's just my flash version though - there's supposed to be a few really unstable versions you'd want to avoid.
I honestly think most FF crashes are down to a handful of reasons - and 95% of them are extensions. The rest might be down to real FF bugs in some circumstances - there's no denying it does seem to crash a lot for some people without a concrete explanation.
Would love to try out FF3 beta1 but I need access to my webmail and apparently it can't use the Ajax heavy clients (I assume Gmail is simple enough to work).
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:38 am
by aaronhall
Yahoo and MS Live aren't working, but you can still use Yahoo's html version... they did say that gmail is working. I just glanced over at the mem usage again and it looks like they finally sealed up the leaks -- only running about 10mb over what it started with after browsing for about 3 hours.
Today is a beautiful day.
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:42 am
by RobertGonzalez
I was reading the release notes and it said they patched over 300 memory leaks. 300!?!?!? Wow, that is a lot of mem loss.
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:50 am
by aaronhall
Ha, this is cool...
<a ping="..."> New in Firefox 3
If present, this attribute should be a space-separated list of URIs that wish to be notified when the user follows the hyperlink. Firefox sends a POST request to each HTTP URI in the list. The ping attribute's functionality can be disabled by setting the browser.send_pings preference to false.
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:54 am
by Luke
I have been having the same issues with Firefox on my laptop since 2.0.0.7 I believe. I have tried reinstalling, disabling extensions, etc. Nothing seems to help. It crashes instantly if I go to myspace. Other than that... it seems almost random.
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:09 am
by RobertGonzalez
Same version that started it for me.
And Ninja, I like that avatar. I think it might be time for me to change mine.
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:00 pm
by Luke
LOL thanks! It's
Brian Pinkterton with earrings, red eyes, a missing tooth and lipstick.
