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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Ian_D on 16 August 2008, 23:19:32
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Ive noticed that firefox seems to be running slowly after its been open for 30 mins or so, and it seems to have a memory leak! Its using 367mb of ram and still going up a meg every few seconds - even when im not using it!
Im sure its doing the same thing on my other laptop which has a newer version of firefox installed too.
Is it just me having these probs? :-/
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fine here, latest firefox in xp and vista
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Firefox is using 97.7k of memory here - solid as a rock too.
Using v3.0.1 and running Noscript and Customise Google add-ins.
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FF rock stable here too.....no 'issues' at all. :y
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Must be just me then :-[
Having said that, I did have about 20 tabs open :-/
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V 3.0.1 here and no issues at all :y
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Hmm. :-/
Firefox has just done this to me. Exactly the same symptoms. Rapidly eating memory and about as responsive as a dead slug.
Kevin
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Sure there was some blended threat released in last week or so that affected FF.... ....exact cause unknown, but thought to be scripts embedded in banner ads...
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Sure there was some blended threat released in last week or so that affected FF.... ....exact cause unknown, but thought to be scripts embedded in banner ads...
It seems to do it after browsing ebay and facebook mainly. :-?
Maybe it is the adverts :-[
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Try Noscript.
Here (http://noscript.net/)
You can limit what site (if any) scripts can run from.
I've been using it for a couple of months. While it needs your input (it's not "load and forget") I woudn't be without it now. Using IE definately feels less safe.
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Sure there was some blended threat released in last week or so that affected FF.... ....exact cause unknown, but thought to be scripts embedded in banner ads...
Found this one.
The Register - Firefox and clipboard hijack (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/15/webbased_clipboard_hijacking/)
Could be my sense of humour but there's something a bit amusing in there somewhere...
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Thanks, that could be why my FF 3.0.1 keeps craping out with "unexpected error, must close".
Ken
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Thanks, that could be why my FF 3.0.1 keeps craping out with "unexpected error, must close".
Ken
Yet another reason to use IE :-X
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Thanks, that could be why my FF 3.0.1 keeps craping out with "unexpected error, must close".
Ken
Yet another reason to use IE :-X
Sorry, No Way.
Ken
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i cant even get ff to install on my pc without constanty crashing...works ok on the laptop tough???? weird :-/ :-/
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Thanks, that could be why my FF 3.0.1 keeps craping out with "unexpected error, must close".
Ken
Yet another reason to use IE :-X
Sorry, No Way.
Ken
Yes. Sorry TB but Ken is right. Give me Noscript for IE and give IE a GNU license and I might agree.
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Thanks, that could be why my FF 3.0.1 keeps craping out with "unexpected error, must close".
Ken
Yet another reason to use IE :-X
Sorry, No Way.
Ken
Yes. Sorry TB but Ken is right. Give me Noscript for IE and give IE a GNU license and I might agree.
Firefox is undoubtedly the best browser.... ....for Unix ;D
Too many security holes due to poor coding, which are now being discovered as FF gets more popular, for me to use as a day to day windows browser.
FF also suffers from the 'Linux Syndrome' - 'its not Microsoft, and thus secure' mentality. MS had the big hits around the turn of the century, and have tightened up their act. A significant proportion of MS threats are now what are called Blended - where products individually are secure, but together create a flaw.
GNU is a horrid licence, much like GPL, which even the latest v3 is so full of holes (much like the software it tries to protect) that its rather pointless - try reading it one day ;)
Open source has fundamental flaws which are tied to its only advantage of 'open access to source' - makes it easier for the more stupid members of hacking comunity to find the flaws, who outnumber the clever hackers considerably. Commercial/hidden code does not suffer this to any extent. But then, obviously, you can't customise it.
Open source also has the problem of amateur coders coming up with a really cool new feature/modication, but without the ability to create it securely, or an add-on that only works with older versions, meaning end users keep running older, broken software...