I am currently running firefox 2.0.0.2 on a Nevada 48 Solaris Build. I have
noticed that Firefox keeps growing its RSS seemingly without bound. I have
also seen this with the earlier1.x version of Firefox I was running previously.
On startup it is a fairly reasonable 72M or so RSS, yet just while sitting
idle overnight with 5 tabs at various web pages it grew to 158M RSS. As I
continue to use it, it keeps growing. Over the course of a week or so It grew
to over 900M RSS and throws my poor 2Gig workstation into a paging fit
eventually. (causing enough of Xorg to get paged or swapped out that my
desktop effectively locks up for several minutes at a time while the disk light
flashes furiously).
Some google research indicated I should try setting browser.cache.memory.enable
in about:config to false. However that does not seem to have halted the
inexorable growth of Firefox's RSS. Does anybody have any suggestions of
something else to try? or is this a FAQ/known problem that I missed the simple
fix for? Thanks for any help,
Stu Maybee
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