Firefox the CPU and memory hog

[saaby93]

I couldnt understand why when I use firefox it uses more and more memory to the point my computer is running like a slow thing and is unable to run anything else
It turns out it never releases anything
http://superuser.com/questions/789548/why-does-my-...
It uses everything to the max and holds it there

Is that clever or what?

[DervVW]

Reads as poo coding.
Personally I use opera, it seems quick and not too bad as a memory user

[anonymous-user]

Saaby thank you for the OP.

I was a big big fan of firefox but stopped using it some months ago.
It seemed more and more power hungry

[Meoricin]

Using 250mb here, after a full day of browsing/streaming/whatever - sure you've not got something else wrong with your PC?

[GreigM]

I had that problem about 18months ago. Can't remember what fixed it eventually, possibly deleteing/resetting firefox profiles or similar - sorry not much help except to say there is a solution out there if you can be bothered to search.

[voyds9]

Firefox has been known to use 1.5Gb of memory when I leave idle games (in flash) running for a week.

Sit use firefox as I like the look of it.

[MarkRSi]

You could try Chrome as each tab is a process so releasing memory should be easier - overall though it seems to use more memory than Firefox so I'm sticking with that.

[wjwren]

stopped using firefox a year ago due to the amount of memory it took up, it was the best browser and probably still is for the look and feel but it causes my laptop fan to sound like a hair dryer. I switched to Chrome and the laptop is silent.

[Beati Dogu]

It's had problems with memory leaks for many years.

[GreigM]

GreigM said:

I had that problem about 18months ago. Can't remember what fixed it eventually, possibly deleteing/resetting firefox profiles or similar - sorry not much help except to say there is a solution out there if you can be bothered to search.

Actually, thinking back it was Ad-block plus that was the problem. Try a new profile without that being installed.

[MarkRSi]

GreigM said:

Actually, thinking back it was Ad-block plus that was the problem. Try a new profile without that being installed.

I'm using µBlock now which is supposedly lighter on resources than Adblock, not running any other addons either.