lesnobabes.blogg.se - Firefox taking up too much memory

Pretty soon I WILL start having problems and should clean it up now. If you think about that for a second, it's almost a half a gigabyte in size. From here, you can see the size of your profile.Īs you can see my User Profile is 489MB.

The User Profiles window will display all user accounts on your Computer.

( NOTE: Screenshots are from Vista and will look similar on XP.)

In the System Properties window, click on the Advanced tab then click the Settings… button in the User Profiles section.

Open up the Run dialog box by clicking on Start \ Run… (or WinKey+R) and enter sysdm.cpl.

Even if you use tools such as Disk Cleanup or CCleaner, desktop files and folders are not included during cleanup and can get out of control. It's unbelievable how badly some simple-looking sites are designed.Storing large folders or file on your desktop is convenient, as long as you keep the size under control. If you're saying that with just a few "light" websites open, and not doing anything in Firefox, that Firefox just starts taking up more and more memory, then it's plausible it's just Flash or some script going nuts.

You can disable all add-ons by starting Firefox in safe-mode from the terminal, firefox -safe-mode, to see if you have the same thing happen. It might be Firefox, but often it's an add-on or combination of add-ons causing the leak. Your system will likely become sluggish from the other programs demanding unavailable memory.

If Firefox is still showing massive memory usage, then it's a leak. If you have another browser installed, like Chrome, start loading massive pages in it. Then start loading other memory intensive programs. You can check this by closing all your tabs except say a blank one. If it's a memory leak on the other hand, that would be a big problem. As long as the program is good about letting go of memory it doesn't absolutely require to other programs, it's not a problem. By keeping as much as you can in memory, it saves having to go to disk and also reloading content needlessly. It's like keeping a warehouse mostly empty because you think it's cleaner. There's a common misconception that utilizing a lot of memory is bad. Without specifying what you're doing exactly, it's hard to say this is an actual problem.