Set browser.sessionhistory.max_entries and browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to 0 may help. Check http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries and http:// kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers
Also, you can clean up your extensions, profiles and try again. Thanks, Ginn On Apr 2, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Dave Lin wrote: > > > From: Stuart Maybee <Stuart.Maybee at Sun.COM> > Date: April 2, 2007 3:09:34 PM CST > To: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Subject: [desktop-discuss] Firefox leaking memory/grows without bounds > > > 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 > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > > -------- Ginn Chen Software Engineer, Browser Team Sun Microsystems, Inc. Phone: x82869 / +86-10-62673869 Fax: +86-10-62780969 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20070402/60bcb798/attachment.html>
