Horrible Memory Leak for 1-2 Weeks Now

[Robert Lindsay]

Not sure exactly when it started, but new FF's suck up a huge amount of memory. I load one page of Gmail, and that's one I GB right there. Another couple of pages and we are up to 1.7 GB. Don't even try to open more windows. I used to have quite a few tabs open in FF, and really nothing happened. Leave two tabs (1.2 GB) open all night, come back, and the system is locked up, with FF eating over 4 GB of memory. I don't think memory is the answer, as it will just chew up whatever more memory I install. No previous installs of FF ever had a leak like this.

[mightyglydd]

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_(Firefox)

1: Safe Mode
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tr ... -safe-mode

If that doesn't work.

2: New test Profile.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_ne ... on_Windows
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pr ... x-profiles

Add NOTHING.

[DN123ABC]

Not sure exactly when it started, but new FF's suck up a huge amount of memory. I load one page of Gmail, and that's one I GB right there. Another couple of pages and we are up to 1.7 GB. Don't even try to open more windows. I used to have quite a few tabs open in FF, and really nothing happened. Leave two tabs (1.2 GB) open all night, come back, and the system is locked up, with FF eating over 4 GB of memory. I don't think memory is the answer, as it will just chew up whatever more memory I install. No previous installs of FF ever had a leak like this.

Seeing the exact same things. Sometimes, one cannot even bring up task manager to kill the Firefox processes; necessitating a power button hard restart. Never has software crippled my systems like Firefox and Thunderbird are currently doing. Again, this is new within the past two or three weeks. It used to be slow, but manageable. Google Chrome seems the only other option.

[mightyglydd]

Another 'me too post', that makes two of you...

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_(Firefox)

1: Safe Mode
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tr ... -safe-mode

If that doesn't work.

2: New test Profile.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_ne ... on_Windows
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pr ... x-profiles

Add NOTHING.

@Fx80 is a Beta.

[DN123ABC]

mightyglydd:

I don't think you fully understand the concept of "testing".

[mightyglydd]

You can think what you like.
Me; I wonder what comparing a Beta with the OP's Fx76 (back from 77) has to do with 'testing'.
Screwed up profile comes to mind.

[DanRaisch]

So far that’s two reports of the issue. What diagnostics have you done?

[therube]

one cannot even bring up task manager to kill the Firefox processes; necessitating a power button hard restart. Never has software crippled my systems like Firefox and Thunderbird are currently doing

Presumably (no one has said) FF is also eating CPU.
But is it only FF that is eating CPU?
As in, do you see ntoskrnl.exe eating CPU at the same time?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.c ... 606162#c10
(There was another related bug, but I'll be if I can find it. Maybe 1 of 250 took it.)

[DN123ABC]

... What diagnostics have you done?

Open to suggestions.

[malliz]

So as usual you just moan without doing anything. No way should you be testing development builds you dont have the capacity for it

[DanRaisch]

... What diagnostics have you done?

Open to suggestions.

Mightyglydd posted links to diagnostics twice. Just review them for information.