I noticed this as well.. Along the huge memory use, Firebug slows Firefox down.. and the CPU utilization is around 50% when loading a website with Firebug on...
(latest version of Firefox and Firebug) On Mar 1, 1:43 am, Ben Amada <[email protected]> wrote: > I created an issue with test results. > > http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=2878 > > On Feb 28, 4:43 pm, Ben Amada <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think I will create an issue for this. > > > Using the same Firefox profile, today I uninstalled 1.5.2 and > > installed 1.5.1. Same memory problems. I then uninstalled 1.5.1 and > > installed 1.5. Memory does not keep increasing with 1.5 -- it stays > > under 200 MB. Even if it temporarily jumps over 200 MB when re- > > loading the page, it goes back down to the 160 to 170 MB range ... > > whereas with 1.5.1 and 1.5.2, it seems to never release this memory. > > > Thanks -- Ben > > > On Feb 28, 3:57 pm, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Feb 27, 6:32 pm, Ben Amada <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm running FF 3.5.8 (latest) on Windows 7 64-bit edition. With > > > > Firebug enabled, after 10 to 20 minutes after launching Firefox, > > > > Firefox is using somewhere around 600 KB of memory, and it continues > > > > to increase as I continue to browse. Right now I'm up to 888 KB. I > > > > just noticed this for the first time yesterday, which is soon after > > > > upgrading to Firebug 1.5.2. > > > > If you think Firebug is causing unnecessary memory problems here is > > > what we need to investigate: > > > > 1) A complete test case (URL or web page we can run), > > > 2) Install Firebug in a new Firefox profile, > > > 3) Open Firebug, reload the page. Record the memory, > > > 4) Reload the page, record the memory. > > > If repeating step 4 shows a significant increase every time, then post > > > your test and results to the issues > > > list,http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/list > > > > jjb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en.
