[Fwd: [desktop-discuss] Firefox leaking memory/grows without bounds]

[Ginn Chen]

Set browser.sessionhistory.max_entries and  
browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to 0 may help.
Check http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries and http:// 
kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers

Also, you can clean up your extensions, profiles and try again.

Thanks,

Ginn

On Apr 2, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Dave Lin wrote:

>
>
> From: Stuart Maybee <Stuart.Maybee at Sun.COM>
> Date: April 2, 2007 3:09:34 PM CST
> To: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Subject: [desktop-discuss] Firefox leaking memory/grows without bounds
>
>
> I am currently running firefox 2.0.0.2 on a Nevada 48 Solaris  
> Build.  I have noticed that Firefox keeps growing its RSS seemingly  
> without bound.  I have also seen this with the earlier1.x version  
> of Firefox I was running previously.  On startup it is a fairly  
> reasonable 72M or so RSS, yet just while sitting idle overnight  
> with 5 tabs at various web pages it grew to 158M RSS.  As I  
> continue to use it, it keeps growing.  Over the course of a week or  
> so It grew to over 900M RSS and throws my poor 2Gig workstation  
> into a paging fit eventually.  (causing enough of Xorg to get paged  
> or swapped out that my desktop effectively locks up for several  
> minutes at a time while the disk light flashes furiously).
> Some google research indicated I should try setting  
> browser.cache.memory.enable in about:config to false.  However that  
> does not seem to have halted the inexorable growth of Firefox's  
> RSS.  Does anybody have any suggestions of something else to try?  
> or is this a FAQ/known problem that I missed the simple fix for?   
> Thanks for any help,
>
>                                                                        
> Stu Maybee
>
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Ginn Chen
Software Engineer, Browser Team
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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