Add-On Solves FireFox Browsers Memory Leaks (FINALLY!)

[Heist]

Try addon AFOM 2.0 Memory Recovery

GOOD GOD THIS IS GREAT!

I have had 15 tabs open for the last hour and it's chilling at about 125-173K in mem usage.

Normally by now I'd be at 300K. And then a few hours, it'd be at 500-600K dragging. 700K lock-up and crash.


AFOM recovers Memory Leakage within a running instance of the Firefox browser application.

Note: ( Windows Only )

Download here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11922

[varium]

Wish i had an idea what that tech jargon means, or even what all this is ultimately supposed to do.

[Heist]

Originally Posted by varium

Wish i had an idea what that tech jargon means, or even what all this is ultimately supposed to do.

Ummm, translated to RC51 language, this is basically the equivalent of getting rid of the soft rev limiter and doing the PAIR mod. It's not going to make your system any faster than it already is (like in my previous posted tweak), instead, this gets rid of the crap that's robbing the engine of its power.



Applications are supposed to "give back" memory when it's done processing whatever it's supposed to be doing, but Firefox wouldn't give it back until you shut down the entire browser and restarted it.

The Firefox browser after being opened for awhile with more than 2 or 3 tabs open, or especially if you had a FLASH video (YouTube) loaded up for awhile, had a nasty habit of eating up your system's RAM (typically called memory creep or a memory leak).

[Wild Child]

Thanks Heist! Testing it now.

[robfromsc]

Thanks for the link man!!! I downloaded it. I'm a techno-newb, I really like the way firefox works, but sometimes it is a little 'sticky' not sure if its the browser or my laptop. I saw your other post on adjusting the settings, but not wanting to jack anything up I've left it alone.

[Heist]

Originally Posted by robfromsc

Thanks for the link man!!! I downloaded it. I'm a techno-newb, I really like the way firefox works, but sometimes it is a little 'sticky' not sure if its the browser or my laptop. I saw your other post on adjusting the settings, but not wanting to jack anything up I've left it alone.

It's sticky after awhile because it was eating the resources and not giving them back - just chewing more and more.

Go ahead and run the tweaks in my last post. You can't screw it up, because if you do, you just retrace all the setting - or if worse comes to worse, re-install FF. No biggie.