Can you tell me which websites have you accessed?

Brian

Stuart Maybee wrote:
> 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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