I sorted out the memory allocation problems in Firefox. it turns out that it was the Adobe Acrobat plugin and lots of other people have had similar encounters. Personally I don't like the Adobe Acrobat and always choose the Foxit reader as a .pdf alternative. This was the main plugin I had to read .pdf's in Firefox but I had loaded the Adobe plugin way back in time as part of a product install that did it automatically. Even though I disabled the plugin it was still active and looking for updates in the background as well as grabbing masses of memory.
It would seem that simply removing firefox and re-installing it doesn't cure the problem as there are numerous Adobe hooks/registry entries that are left and some plugins which Firefox leaves traces of even if you select the "uninstall user options" which is what I did at first. You need to uninstall Firefox then manually remove the program installation folder completely. This forces a reset of the registry entries when it is then re-installed. Job done. Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Crozier Sent: 23 January 2014 11:11 To: ProFox Email List Subject: RE: [NF] Firefox problems... Sorry about the mess on your desk Alan... just send the bill! Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 22 January 2014 17:27 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] Firefox problems... On Wed, Jan 22, 2014, at 04:50 PM, Dave Crozier wrote: > After an initial Firefox load it grabs 10Gig (spits coffee) [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
