FireFox Issue

[G10]

Ok, here's the deal with it:

WhenI'm surfing around the forum and stay logged in here for hours, Firefox starts getting slower and slower until it is basically just chugging along rather sporadically.

In the end it just gives up the ghost and bombs out, trying to send an error report to the dev team.

From the moment it starts to slow down to the moment it dies, it can take about 30 mins.

This is really beggining to get on my nerves and haven't figured what is causing it.

It kind of seems like some sort of FF cache is getting full as it slows down if you know what I mean.

Anybody else experienced this and if so any idea how to fix it?

[Atom]

This is an early verion, but, my FF 1.0 kept crashing, but I don't recall a slowing down, and I never did determine why, I just switched to Opera.

[BingoBalls]

Originally Posted by G10

Firefox starts getting slower and slower until it is basically just chugging along rather sporadically.

I have been having the same issue now for the past two weeks, crawls and now is crashing a lot. Im switching to Netscape.

What version are you on? Im using FireFox version 1.5.0.1

[Zap]

I'm no programmer, but it sounds like it could be some sort of memory leak.

What does your task manager tell you?

[G10]

BingoBalls (love that name ) I am running the same version as you.

Zap, I will monitor that but I am running along the path that it is that sort of thing also dude.

Will report my TM findings soon dude - Current Mem Usage for FF:

266,464 K

[G10]

Currently on 298,152 K (and still rising) in the space of a few mins. Ok it seems to me that it can't flush memory properly.

We got a leak with this baby.

[DOS]

Try out Opera and see how it runs for you.

[G10]

It bombed out at about 308,600 K

I have restarted it and it reports 26,696 so that tells me def memory leakage going on.

Must be a fix over at Mozilla as I bet loads are having this issue.

[sacx13]

100% is a memory leak. Just upgrade your version. I'm using 1.5.0.1 under linux and windows and I dont have any problem ...

Regards
Adrian

[G10]

Thanks sacx13 but that is the version I am running

Must be one of the extensions etc

[ToddW]

Originally Posted by G10

Thanks sacx13 but that is the version I am running

Must be one of the extensions etc

What extesion?

I need to get some and now want to know what to stay away from

[G10]

Extensions:

1, Talkback 1.5.0.1
2, Linky 2.7.1
3, FlashGot 0.5.0.933
4, Image Zoom 0.2.3
5, Linkification 1.2.3
6, Stealther 0.95
7, Google Toolbar for FireFox - 1.0.20051122
8, Adblock Plus 0.6.1.2
9, Adblock G.Filters Updater 0.3.0.3


My Theme is Noia 2.0 Extreme (2.991) which when you customise it to suite, I think is the best.

[pukenerampa]

im using firefox now and i dont notice what you have been posted. my version is 1.5.0.1

[G10]

Originally Posted by pukenerampa

im using firefox now and i dont notice what you have been posted. my version is 1.5.0.1

Again, it depends on the extensions and other variables.

If you want to see if it's eating up your resources, just open Task Manager and monitor the memory count on it.

[Tomassi]

Its a sort of an extended history feature that makes surfing better( whatever)
But it CAN be disabled

[joecoolfreak]

G....definately sounds like a rougue extension. I have not had any probs with my ff1.5. Maybe it's a good time to try 2.0 ;-)

[BingoBalls]

Originally Posted by G10

I am running the same version as you.

My problem seems to have gotten better - dont know if its connected as I have different extensions