Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Memory leak in Firefox 3.6.12

Why is Firefox eating up so much memory and after sometime it becomes virtually unresponsive. Look at the memory footprint at startup:



And, memory usage after running a while (opened about 5 tabs). At this stage, it became unresponsive too :-(



My Firefox version:



Many people have reported this issue, but, no solution yet?

2 comments:

Bimalesh Jha said...

Upgrade to 3.6.13 looks stable so far.

Alex Kamburov said...

@BJ My 3.6.13 is also resource hungry. I browse a lot, then I close all tabs and firefox.exe is still 700-900MB.

I might try to disable all addons and see how this goes :\