I'm pretty sure the problem is indeed flash. As long as firefox keeps
the flash plugin running in the same process space, bugs in flash are
going to affect firefox.
-- Garrett
Stuart Maybee wrote:
> Just following up on my earlier mail on this topic. I tried the
> suggestions fom Ginn Chen, about modifing the config parameters:
>
>
>> set browser.sessionhistory.max_entries and
>>
> browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to 0 may help.
>
> However this did not seem to help.
>
> At the moment I am working around the problem by monitoring the RSS with
> prstat and killing Firefox when it grows too large.
> as to the question of what websites are accessed. I started a fresh
> Firefox last night and left tabs sitting at the following pages in my
> browser. With no clicks whatsoever overnight in ~8 hours the RSS grew
> from 73M to 106M.
>
> Tabs at:
> http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapClick.php?FcstType=text&textField1=40.1846122741699&textField2=-105.1198806762695&site=den&Radius=0&CiTemplate=0&TextType=1
> http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=10308722#post10308722
> http://www.google.com/
> file:///net/xenbld.sfbay/disk3/smaybe/matrix/webrev/index.html
>
> Any more thoughts? I am somewhat suspicious that the avsforum site may
> be what is causing the problem since it has a flashing ad at the top of
> the page. However, it seems to me that if that causes unbounded growth
> in Firefox it is a serious problem with Firefox.
>
> Stu
>
> On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 18:31 +0800, Brian Lu wrote:
>
>> Can you tell me which websites have you accessed?
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> Stuart Maybee wrote:et browser.sessionhistory.max_entries and
>> browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to 0 may help.
>>
>>> 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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