I’ve noticed that Firefox is only using a third of the memory it was using before, so I’m down to about 115,000K instead of 350,000K. You have to take what victories you can get.
Other factors in the memory issue:
- I am using the Tab Mix Plus extension, and that probably accounts for a bit. I only say this because TM+ has a session saver as well as a undo tab deletion feature. I’m sure options like that require a bit of information to be stored in memory.
- The amount of memory Firefox uses is also dependent on the websites that are loaded. I run into the most issues with large memory issues at work, probably on account of the pages I have open.
- A direct comparison with IE isn’t fair, as IE is integrated with the operating system, and chances are, some of the memory is uses is hidden elsewhere. A quick check of a personally calculated total of memory usage is about 70 below the amount listed by Task Manager.
Since the computers I tend to work on have 512 MB or more of memory, it isn’t too big of an issue. I’m sure there’s some setting or chunk of code that’s causing the issue that will be worked out sometime soon. Hell, I’ve used Windows for so long it doesn’t really bother me.
Since Firefox 1.5 was released, I’ve had issues with my memory usage for Firefox running up my memory anywhere from 200,000K to 350,000K range. Yes, that’s up to 350MB just for Firefox. For all intents and purposes, that sounds like a memory leak to me.
After some Googling and other research, I found the cause of the memory issue. The current version of Adblock available on the Firefox extension page is 0.5.2.056. However, in the forums for Adblock, they have a link to a release of Adblock with the version of 0.5.2.056+. Yes, a damn plus. And so you don’t have to deal with this issue, the forum where I found it is here.
Or something like that.
I only say that because I’ve had to resolve two issues that have arisen over the past couple days. Sunday night, the garbage disposal got jammed, which required me to figure out how to disassemble it, unclog it, and reassemble it without causing it to break more so. It was easy enough.
This evening’s issue was the bathroom door, which hasn’t been remaining closed. Once I looked at it, I’m surprised that it ever stayed shut in the first place; the bar and the recess didn’t line up. After some filing and scrapping (using a deburring tool), I finally made the two line up.
Time to work on some AWBW maps.
Or, “Death of a Coffee Cup”.
Today was indeed a bad morning at work. I attempted to stir my coffee in my self-stirring coffee cup, but it would not stir.
I took apart the cup as much as I could, and could not find a way to get it to work. I was hoping that the luck I had with disconnecting and resolving the garbage disposal last night would continue, but such was not the case. Now I am forlorn, as my backup cup requires manual stirring.
I seek a replacement. I have found one, and believe it is worth the +$21.
I shall ask for it for my birthday/Christmas.
The Fall 2005 semester is finally over with. The celebration for this occurrence included Meghan and I joining Danielle and John on their dinner at a Thai restaurant and going to see The Chronicles of Narnia. The initial plan meant to include a trip to the zoo to see the lights, but since it took about 45 minutes to get from BG to the restaurant because of traffic, we ran out of time.
The semester is over, and in retrospect, I did not do everything I had hoped to get done by the end of the semester/year. While what I wanted to accomplish was not absolutely vital, they were things I still wish I would have done. This includes practicing for the GREs and be ready to take them in January or February. The biggest road block I ran into was that I typically didn’t have time on the weekends when there was no one around to distract me. That, and I wasn’t motivated on the weekends to create a situation like that.
Andy was over and we tried to play Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors, but for some reason, the game did not want to work in multiplayer. We tried everything we could think of, but nothing worked. I think a complete uninstall/reinstall should resolve whatever issue was causing this.
Update: 12/27/06I just noticed now, a year later, that I had this titled “End of Fall 06″, which was horribly incorrect. This has been corrected.
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