Is anyone else running Firefox (v2.0.0.1) experiencing anything similar? It's getting a bit annoying, as good as 'fox is the rest of the time!

See attached screenshot. This is from my work machine which I left on over the weekend as I left it doing a few bits and pieces on Fri night. I only had four tabs open, not intensive pages either - work intranet, Brisky, Pistonheads and SCN.

Can anyone therefore explain why I got to work this morning to find Firefox near maxing out on CPU, and having consumed over a day's worth of CPU? :eek: - no wonder I was getting impatient with my PC this morning, wondering why it wasn't as quick as usual!

It's happening to my home PC as well. Admittedly I usually end up running about 10 tabs and because my machine is on 24/7 some of those tabs stay open for quiet some time. Memory usage is usually north of 100Mb, upto around 130Mb, which I can live with, if it weren't for the constant CPU usage. It's affecting my folding

Any suggestions?

Cheers,

Steve

Yeah, getting that quite often as I tend to leave it running for days on end :( Only fix I've found is to restart the app.

Not really good enough that though is it? Not to me anyway.

As Firefox was always branded as a more efficient and quicker alternative, I'm surprised at its behaviour TBH.

Steve

Dont have the problem but im running os x none of this windows lark.

As for not good enough..................its free you cant exactly be disappointed for good reason now can you

Massive memory leak, and some of the rendering things go a bit awol.

I have found that acrobat reader plugin causes a hang quite often (who is to blame i don't know), but not exactly fun.

Have you posted that up on bugzilla, and if not do you mind if i drop it on there.

As for not good enough..................its free you cant exactly be disappointed for good reason now can you

I feel I can actually Matt, if they market this as viable alternative to I.E., I expect it to work properly. To me, just because I haven't paid for it, isn't an excuse for it not to work correctly.

I find the rest of the program first class, I've been using it since beta. It just seems since v2 to have got a bit clunkier with regards to performance, and also this leaking issue.

Steve

Have you posted that up on bugzilla, and if not do you mind if i drop it on there.

Absolutely, post away

Cheers - had forgotten about Bugzilla.

Steve

it's not actually a leak...

Firefox with cache things on the fly, and will keep caching them.

type about:config into Firefox, and have a play (but don't blame me if you f*ck something up!)

HTH

I use Firefox but haven't experienced this issue "yet". IE7 is apparently on a par if not better in terms of security I hear these days.

Unfortunately Mozilla haven't been forthcoming even though Microsoft have offered to help them in the development of code for Vista.

Having said that, in Vista Ultimate which I am running it's still quicker and IMO faster than IE7, just a bit irritating that they are still using an old RSS Feed engine in comparison to IE'S/Microsofts new sleek RSS integration (those who use the desktop RSS Feeder gadget will know exactly what I mean as the bloody thing never updates!!!).

Chris.

It happens to me quite often. I have to kill Firefox.

Ditto - which sux as it didnt use to do this in the previous major release version.

That said, it recovers the sessions well generally speaking, which is a bonus

I notice this too, but Firefox usually crashes before I have a chance to restart it

Chris

it's not actually a leak...

Firefox with cache things on the fly, and will keep caching them.

type about:config into Firefox, and have a play (but don't blame me if you f*ck something up!)

HTH

That's a distinct possibility, cheers - will take a look. I've not been in there since about release 0.7!

On the stability issue, it very rarely crashes for me. And when it does it's usually when I've got a mass of tabs open and I haven't been bothered to go through and shut the ones I don't need

Steve

I feel I can actually Matt, if they market this as viable alternative to I.E., I expect it to work properly. To me, just because I haven't paid for it, isn't an excuse for it not to work correctly.

I find the rest of the program first class, I've been using it since beta. It just seems since v2 to have got a bit clunkier with regards to performance, and also this leaking issue.

Steve

Thats quite true i suppose but then again in firefox 1 there was CPU leak in os x you could hold the mouse button down and watch the CPU fly upto 100%

On the stability issue, it very rarely crashes for me. And when it does it's usually when I've got a mass of tabs open and I haven't been bothered to go through and shut the ones I don't need

I think as an end user, I'd rather have a "resource shortage, close some of your tabs" error than the thing crashing, me losing all my tabs and then having to fill in the Quality Feedback Agent to let them know of my dissatisfaction!

Of course it may well be the sites I'm looking at

Chris

never had it crash, to be honest!

and I've been known to have 30+ tabs open at once

I just get fed up of coming back to my laptop to find it red hot, the fan going full tilt, and everything very slow and unresponsive until I kill Firefox and let some other apps have some memory again

I typically have 5 or 6 tabs, nothing excessive.

Briskoda is actually a culprit in some of this. I quite often get messages saying "a script that was executing on this page is taking too long" and asking me if I want to continue or kill it.

I can't remember ever having this kind of issue..... The PC is usually left on 24/7.... I'm now running Firefox 2.0.0.2 and still no probs.

Cheers

Dave.

I can't remember ever having this kind of issue..... The PC is usually left on 24/7.... I'm now running Firefox 2.0.0.2 and still no probs.

Cheers

Dave.

There is an update to Firefox thats gone out this weekend... the latest ver is 2.0.0.2

I also get the Firefox slowdown. Everything grinds to a halt and only a rebootfrees things up. Strangley I don't get it with IE7, but I try to avoid IE if possible.

I am very disapointed with the latest Firefox TBH.

I know this is going to sound a bit odd, but if you want stable then keep running 1.5.

1.5 is the stable supported version of FF and 2.0 is the development and new features version. Hopefully it will improve as time goes on.

EDIT:

About time

Firefox fix lances memory corruption bug | The Register

Reviving this old thread, I had Firefox 1.5 runing and had crashes on certain sites. It was consistent and pretty repeatable that certain pages would crash it. Jetex, tyres-online, whifbitz to name 3.

I went to Firefox 2.0.x and had exactly the same problems with the same sites. I recently changed my graphics card from an ATI to an Nvidea and I now have absolute stability regardless of how amny tabs or windows are open.

Chris