Firefox question

[Orrex]

Most of the time, when I open Firefox, it immediately explodes to fill 300 or 400K of memory, even when I deactivate all plug-ins and change my settings to open to a blank homepage. It drags down my system's performance to the point of immobility, despite force-closing Firefox and all of its "plug in containers" through the task manager.

What the hell is going on? How do I stop it?


Edited to add: if you advise me to get Chrome or Opera or a Mac, that means that you want to make sweet, sweet love to Chris Christie under the GWB until late in 2015.

[RebelOne]

1. I do not want to make love to Chris Christie as he is not my type,

but I will advise you to get a Mac. I use Firefox with my Mac and have no problems. I also have Safari and it slows down my system, so I mostly use Firefox.

[Orrex]

3. Give him a big smooch

Given my usage needs, there's simply no way for me to justify buying a Mac when I can get an entirely serviceable PC or laptop for 75% less.

I have to suspect that it's a software issue rather than the platform I'm using.


Thanks all the same.

[adirondacker]

2. Have you tried clearing the history while selecting all of the details ?

[Orrex]

4. Yeah, I have it set to do that each time I close it

Ran into a similar memory problem about a year ago, and the full-purge helped for a while.


I've read a bit about this while trying to find a solution, and a number of people likewise lament Firefox's tendency to explode in size while in use. The general consensus is "they're never going to fix it, so live with it."

[adirondacker]

5. Have you performed a health report (under Help)?

I've had problems in the past, but not in over a year with the newest version.

[adirondacker]

6. There is a data sharing button on the upper right. You can toggle it to off to see if it makes a

difference.

[Orrex]

8. Thanks--I'll try both of those and see how they work.

[MicaelS]

7. Did you try all of these suggestions?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram

[Orrex]

9. Some good suggestions there

Lots to troubleshoot. Thanks!

[struggle4progress]

10. I think Firefox leaks memory depending on how many tabs I have open at any one time

Whenever I have lots of tabs open, I leak so much memory I can't get back by closing tabs that I have to restart -- and I mean gigs of memory

[Paulie]

11. Firefox doesn't have the luxury of having part of itself running in a separate process like IE

IE and Explorer are really the same code, so a bunch of the DLLs that IE needs are already in ram. Makes Firefox seem larger.

400k of memory isn't that much. Or is it like 400Meg?

[Orrex]

12. Whoops. megs. Nice catch.

[Yavin4]

13. When you wrote "make sweet, sweet love to Chris Christie under the GWB until late in 2015."

does that mean one long love making session? Or, several different meetup sessions over a period of time from now until 2015?