Holy Memory Leak Batman

[mcb_homis]

So I am, as usual, behind the times. I just upgraded my home and work machines to Chrome. Not that I really hated Firefox but damn if Firefox running on Vista 64-bit didn't have a memory leak the size of a manhole cover. From a fresh reboot my Vista machine would have ~32% of system resource used. I would start Firefox and it would go up to ~38

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[steamingturd]

Running Firefox 3.6.13 under Windows 7 64-bit, I don't really have a problem with this. I leave Firefox running all the time, and usually only have to restart for unrelated reasons about every couple weeks (Windows update requiring a reboot, that sort of thing). It's been running for several days now, with one window having about ten tabs open, and it's still at only about 500MB memory usage. (Of course, I have 4 GB available, so that's not a huge burden.)

I have found, though, that certain sites that are heavy on the Javascript can make Firefox bog down until the site in question is closed. Facebook is a notable culprit for this, and the longer I leave Facebook open, the more of a problem it becomes. You might try closing the sites you've had open for a while when you notice resource problems, and see if that frees anything up.

[mcb_homis]

My home machine has 6 Gb of system memory. GFWTR does use Facebook frequently but usually logs out after she done. We will typically have 10-20 tabs open between the two of us. Might just be a Vista problem. My 64-bit XP on my workstation at work does not seem to suffer that as bad but it gets reboot pretty much every day when I leave work.