Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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Basically, it will trim the memory every time you minimize the window. Works well.
Thanks! I’ve dont that on my computers and will see how well it works.
Do you have many extensions added to your Firefox? I know I personally have Forecast Fox, Yahoo Mail Notifier, GMail Notifier, Sage, Bug Me Not, and Quick Notes. My Firefox is using about 100 mb right now.
I’ve got a few dozen extensions myself only one or two of which I believe I’m willing to give up. Maybe I should take a look and clean them out a bit. (Hey, I got rid of the Abe Vigoda extension a while back.)
Also note that several memory leak issues were fixed in 1.5.0.2, so try upgrading if you’re using 1.5 or 1.5.0.1.
Nope, fully upgraded to 1.5.0.2. The ultimate issue is probably the fact that the computer in question runs 24-7, gets rebooted about one a month, and Firefox is rarely closed. Maybe I need to get into the habit of shutting the it down more often.
Firefox leaks memory like crazy. Try this:
http://www.thecomputermechanics.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-7660.html
Basically, it will trim the memory every time you minimize the window. Works well.
Thanks! I’ve dont that on my computers and will see how well it works.
Do you have many extensions added to your Firefox? I know I personally have Forecast Fox, Yahoo Mail Notifier, GMail Notifier, Sage, Bug Me Not, and Quick Notes. My Firefox is using about 100 mb right now.
I’ve got a few dozen extensions myself only one or two of which I believe I’m willing to give up. Maybe I should take a look and clean them out a bit. (Hey, I got rid of the Abe Vigoda extension a while back.)
Also note that several memory leak issues were fixed in 1.5.0.2, so try upgrading if you’re using 1.5 or 1.5.0.1.
Nope, fully upgraded to 1.5.0.2. The ultimate issue is probably the fact that the computer in question runs 24-7, gets rebooted about one a month, and Firefox is rarely closed. Maybe I need to get into the habit of shutting the it down more often.