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ff and my ram

4 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/ff-and-my-ram.62938/

iMav
iMav Original post #1
Jul 14, 2007 at 2:23 PM
well sometimes ff's ram consumption goes on increasing every second touches 100+ is this the memory leak problem and why havnt the guys rectified it if its the memory leak problem
gxsaurav
Jul 14, 2007 at 2:38 PM
They won't

According to users it is a memry leak in firefox

According to Mozilla, it is a feature that FF caches everything :D. You should also not use Ad blocks etc to block google ads as this leads to higher memory usage
iMav
iMav #3
Jul 14, 2007 at 2:41 PM
ad block nahi use karunga toh ff se acha toh mera ie hai ...
saurabh.sauron
Jul 14, 2007 at 8:10 PM
i dont use adblock, but sometimes my usage reaches 180 mb ??? what the...