Firefox eating my ram

I just updated my frefox from 21 to 22 and now it is making my mac run at full blast eating up my ram

see: [[Firefox uses too much memory (RAM) - How to fix|Firefox uses too much memory (RAM) - How to fix]]

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Firefox Eating Away RAM on my Leopard Machine

I am not sure if it is the right place to post this. I use Leopard on my 2GHz Macbook with 2GB RAM. Istat dashboard widget always shows that Firefox (v3 beta 5) is eats away all my RAM (between 260-300MB)? Is it some memory leak problem of Firfox or something to do with OSX? Should I not worry considering I have enough RAM? Any solution to give limited food to starving and greedy firefox.

Do a clean reinstall and delete the Firefox program before (re)installing a fresh copy of the current Firefox release.
*Download the full Firefox installer and save the file to the desktop<br>http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html
If possible uninstall your current Firefox version to cleanup the Windows registry and settings in security software.
*Do NOT remove "personal data" when you uninstall your current Firefox version, because this will remove all profile folders and you lose personal data like bookmarks and passwords including data in profiles created by other Firefox versions.
Remove the Firefox program before installing that newly downloaded copy of the Firefox installer.
*(32 bit Windows) "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\"
*(64 bit Windows) "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\"
*It is important to delete the Firefox program to remove all the files and make sure that there are no problems with files that were leftover after uninstalling.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_Firefox
Your bookmarks and other personal data are stored in the Firefox profile folder and won't be affected by an uninstall and (re)install, but make sure that "remove personal data" is NOT selected when you uninstall Firefox.
If you keep having problems then also create a new profile.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Clean_reinstall

Firefox uses excessive RAM

I connect to the Internet via dialup. I know, but that's all that is available to me. Anyway, when I go offline and DO NOT TOUCH my computer, Firefox begins to eat up RAM, to the point that the cooling fan is absolutely racing and the computer is unresponsive to keyboard or mouse inputs. Remember, Firefox is IDLE and OFFLINE with gmail, Outlook, Facebook and two other tabs open. I have confirmed that Firefox is the RAM user by looking at Task Manager. Why is this happening?

Both Gmail and Facebook may monitor for changes and dynamically update the page. Typically these would be small amounts of data, but some add-ons may spring into action, for example, to pre-load or download videos.
Can you replicate the problem in Firefox Safe Mode? That's a standard diagnostic tool to bypass interference by extensions (and some custom settings). More info: [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode]].
You can restart Firefox in Safe Mode using
Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled
In the dialog, click "Start in Safe Mode" (''not'' Reset)
Any difference?

When will Firefox consume less ram?

I use Mozilla Firefox as my primary web browser, it's excellent in almost every aspect except, it consumes too much ram.
Sometimes/most it eats up to 200-300 MB and it's not acceptable, will Firefox receive an update which will stop from eating so much ram?
I've looked for the tweaking to do in "about:config" it hasn't lower it down than the normal and also "Firefox Optimizer" it tells the user that it's consuming 400kb's but it's not true, only hiding the real facts.
As a everyday user of Firefox browser, I really want my number one browser to not be slow nor eat my ram!
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== Since I started using version 3, as I can remember.

Even in safe mode, Firefox 4 takes over 1500 megs of virtual memory and 800 megs shared. This is on a laptop with 2G ram, so it's almost half of actually consumed memory. I have a lot of tabs hidden behind Panorama, but those are not in active use so I'd prefer them not to be loaded at all at startup, only when I try to access them.

Firefox 4.0 RAM usage soars over time in Mac OSX 10.6.7 and is never freed

Firefox 4.0 RAM usage typically averages between 400-750MB for light usage (1-2 windows, 1-3 tabs each). Memory usage skyrockets over time, and/or if I open more tabs or windows where I've seen it consume well over 1 GB of RAM of my total 4 GB. Firefox 4.0 never seems to free much of this RAM relative to what it's consuming either.
The only plugins enabled are QuickTime, Flash and Java (and disabling any of these to use Firefox efficiently should not be required).
The worst I've ever seen was it using 1.27 GB of RAM when all I had open was Facebook (1 window, 0 tabs). Something is not right with this browser...Shouldn't it free what it isn't using?

Same here. I upgraded to FF5 yesterday morning and by this morning FF was using 1.26GB RAM and over 1GB Virtual Memory (less than 24 hours). I've had this problem ever since I started using FF with version 3...
The only add-on I use is Firebug.

Final Cut Pro X is eating my RAM.

I'm not sure what is going on here, but Final Cut Pro X totally eats up my 20 Gigs of RAM. The background tasks window shows zero activity, and all I am doing is trying to make cuts to the footage in my timeline. After an hour, the interface is sluggish (to put it mildly) and 4 out of 10 cut actions cause the program to crash.
I even tried opening the program and doing nothing. It STILL eats my RAM up in roughly an hour.
I have opened other projects from Final Cut 7 for some kind of comparison and I have not experience the same issue. Granted they are two completely different programs.
Any ideas?

Well, my setup works sweetly with 8 GB Ram.
Here I go with the same old boring checklist . . .
If you're getting crashes, autosave problems etc, there is more than likely some conflict on your system drive.
Create a new (admin) user on your Mac system and try FCP X from there.
I did this, and FCP X worked perfectly on the new account, meaning there was definitely a conflict on my existing system.
To be absolutely certain my MacPro's system was squeaky clean, I then did a clean reinstall (not TimeMachine) and FCP X has worked reliably ever since.
FCP X application should be in your Applications folder and ideally, your project and events should all be on an external HD and not on your Mac system drive.
I have over 3700 clips distributed between five events at the moment and FCP X is coping very well most of the time.
It helps to work without the waveforms displayed as these slow things down considerably.
Do you have FC Studio or a version of FCP on the same drive partition as FCP X? This is known to cause problems and not advised by Apple.
I quote from the Apple Support Website (23rd Sept 2011).
"It is strongly recommended that you install Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4 on a startup disk that does not have Final Cut Studio (2009) already installed. Use Apple's preferred installation procedure when upgrading one version of Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Studio to the next. This procedure is not unique to Final Cut Pro X."
Note that Apple use the word "strongly" - some people prefer to ignore this, and then blame Apple for all the sins on earth.
I don't.
Andy
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4722

Yosemite is eating more RAM

Hi i upgraded to Yosemite from Mavericks and now i am facing that my mac is eating more ram. please suggest me a solution for this

More RAM would mean that more apps could be open and run more efficiently. Remember, the OS requires a minimum of 1gb of RAM, FCE requires a minimum of 1gb, and then there's all those background processes running that you don't see; each with their own RAM requirements. So if you want to have FCE running along with a few other apps, more RAM would be recommended.
It would also help to keep things running smoothly if a minimum of 10 to 20% free space is maintained on all hard drives.
-DH

Firefox eating excessive memory (highest I've observed it was 3.5 GB)

Upon start up my FireFox goes right up to over 130KB of ram, which is already a lot. Over a period of 45 mins to an hour, its consuming an entire 1GB of memory. Left unchecked it goes over TWO GB. One time I even saw it eating 3.5 GB and had my entire system running at a snails pace. That is beyond excessive. I've seen other posts about memory usage but none on this huge of a scale. If I can't fix it I won't use FireFox anymore.

hello, i agree that this totally unacceptable memory consumption. there have been many efforts going on of reducing the core browser's memory footprint - most of these excessive leaks are caused by extensions in the browser - which ones do you have installed in firefox > addons > extensions? (changes will be implemented in firefox 15 to dramatically reduce the possibility of memory leaks by these 3rd party programs).
you can also try launching firefox in safemode and see if it's working normally. if so, you'd have to try disabling all extensions, reenabling them one by one again & then observing the behaviour of the browser again to find out what's causing it.
[[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode]]

Has anyone else noticed firefox using more RAM in windows 7?

I've noticed this lately and firefox has been using more RAM lately. I only have 1 tab open and it doesn't matter what page I would be on when it happens. It wouldn't bother me if I still had 6GB of RAM but I am going on 3.5 now. Can you guys fix this please? Just being on this page alone it's at 2.15GB when it would usually be at 1.78 and in processes it says 260,000k. I don't have any other windows or tabs open.

All is good now :D

Weirdest Logic behavior (Deleting tracks will eat up RAM)

Hi,
I've been a Logic 9 user for quite a few years (4-5yrs at the least) and have never experienced anything like this.
I'm currently working on a film project which requires using at least 25-30 Kontakt loaded tracks. My computer, 2.6Ghz i7 16gb Ram running on 10.7.5, has been handling this ram/cpu eating project fairly well for the past few weeks. I've been very careful while working and I'd purge any unused samples loaded on Kontakt. Usually I'd have at least about half of my RAM unused (6-7GB). Even in an intense action scene my computer was rarely frozen.
Now, I'm done with my sequencing and for the past few days I've been spending my days exporting/ bouncing in place my tracks so that I could mix them once they are converted to audio tracks. Once I'm done converting midi to audio tracks I always pack them into the folder and delete the rest of midi tracks.
THE WEIRDEST EVENT OCCURS WHEN I'M DELETING MY TRACKS, LOGIC WILL EAT UP MY RAM LIKE MY SISTER EATING A CHOCOLATE. Deleting a single track would consume AT LEAST 1gb of memory loss. After deleting 5-6 tracks my activity monitor shows that my computer only has about 4-6mb of ram left. By then, my logic session is nearly frozen and I have to run my memory cleaner app to free up my ram space.
This is perhap the most bizzard logic phenomenon that's ever occured and I'm very puzzled at this moment. I guess the best solution at this point for me is to reinstall logic 9 but at least I'd like to hear opnions from Logic gurus out there. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

It doesn't jump for me however I'd thought I put my 2 cents in and ask if anyone else gets this behavior:
I'm in a similar situation. I want to 'clean up' the session. I have a bunch of xtra tracks I didn't use or multiple instances of the same track, from 'mute and create new track' feature. As I start to delete the extra tracks, when I get to the 3 - 6th track, Logic will re-initialize the audio core driver. All virtual instruments will 'blank' out, and it will take anywhere from 8 - 20 seconds for Logic to 'boot' them all again. It was acting very bad a month or two ago, it would re-initialize after 3 deletes. Lately, It's more like if I delete 8 or more tracks. (I usually don't have that many to delete) This is not consistant, it DOESN'T always happen.
Is anyone else experiencing this?

Is anyone else having problems with Firefox 8 dominating Ram?

I am running osx 10.7.1 The only thing running is Firefox 8 (with add-ons disabled. One window, with only this tab open.) & activity monitor. While firefox is running with one tab open my system is using 1.92gb of ram. as soon as Firefox is quit all of that ram frees up.
Does anyone have a solution to this? I cannot Run Firefox 8 without it making my system completely unusable.

UPDATE: After upgrading to 8.0.1 I am down to using 808.6 mb of ram, with one tab open(still no add-on's enabled) as compared to 8.0's 1.92 gb. while this still isn't great (firefox 3 only used 630.4mb with 6 tabs open + 2 add-on's) it is starting to fall back down to the realm of acceptable numbers, I guess. I Throw this update up for discussion of the results. The more people I have numbers to compare with the more I can establish a "baseline normal" for version 8. so far I'm working with the ram usage for 10 similar systems(same os, same firefox, all w/ add-on's disabled & only 1 tab open) If you'd like to add your numbers to my research feel free to post them in a reply.

Mountain Lion EATS-UP RAM and BATTERY!!!

Since I had the BAD idea to install Mountain Lion I have had only trouble.
1) Given the fact that Safari deosn't start and hangs endlessly, unless I ALWAYS force reload the pages, and given the absence - a REAL LOSS! - of functionalities like RSS which were in Safari 5.1.7 but not in Safari 6, I had to drop it as my favorite browser after MANY YEARS, and pass to Firefox which is FLAWLESS.
2) Another MAJOR issue that I want to mention is the fact that with M.L. my free Memory at startup, with the same login items, has gone down from an average of 6.9/7 Giga to a 5 Giga or less.
Even freeing memory doesn't help.
3) The other problem is a HORRIBLE DOWNGRADE ALSO IN BATTERY LIFE which has STARTED the moment I installed M.L.
Instead of the usual 7-7 1/2 hours, I now get about 3 1/2 hours.
I have done PRAM reset and permission repairs (which, BTW, take EVEN 10 minutes!!!) but to no avail.
And on top of it, EVERYTHING is much slower than with Snow Leopard!
A MAJOR SYSTEM UPDATE IS NEEDED URGENTLY!
This system for now s*u*c*k*s feet fungi! ...And one cannot go back to the previous system!!!

Thank you Thomas. Some common sense, respect and politeness helps.
Unless... I have no right to be upset at a system that was put out and for which I even payed (a first in 25 years for me with Mac) and someone finds "offensive" (who is he, the system's mom or child?) some very harsh (IMHO with reasons) criticism of this system!
To begin with, it would REALLY help if, INSTEAD OF SHOOTING answers which are NOT answers, one took the time to read the question well and to try and understand if the person who asks is a newbie or not (in my profile there is a 25 years of Mac experience), and may be NOT insisting on the creation of a new user account when a few messages above I had already written that:
"I not only created a brand new user account, I actually ever re-formatted the whole disk and re-installed the system ANEW, one week after the first install and after innumerable problems, and NOTHING CHANGED".
I consider the REPEAT of such a suggestion just disrespectful, since I had written that I had already done all that and more, and I find it also also upsetting, after one week of PURE **** with my computer, something NEVER experienced before.
In the meantime, I disabled the [for me] useless and actually annoying "Notifications" even eliminating it from the toolbar, and free RAM at startup jumped immediately UP about ONE GIGA, back to 5.2 out of 8, and, after using freemory pro (even if it really bugs me to have to do that everytime I startup!) I gain another giga, and I am back to something more normal like 6.2 out of 8.
However, no way for me to have Safari start without forced reloading (while Firefox is flawless) and I also still have the rest of the BUGS, not last of which is with Mail showing the "blocked plug-in" (after re-installing a brand new FlashPlayer with the new system installation) and not allowing Control-F in address field, which I had done since Mail was invented.
As another person, probably another "idiot" like me who doesn't know that Mountain Lion is perfect and it is all his fault, (I quote him): "I send out 'stuff' to a distribution of people (Bcc, of course) and always take pains to remove the original sender from the list. I then used to put the cursor in the list of distributes, hit Command + A then Command + F and "find" whomever it was I needed to omit. This handy feature is now disabled. Sigh."
I really resent that some people at Apple are so much under windoz influence that they have been eliminating one by one the great characteristics that made Mac a DIFFERENT system, above all a USER FRIENDLY SYSTEM.
Now it is much less so, and on top of it you have Mac users in this forum, who probably started with a PC (which I NEVER touched) who get upset when one points out the flaws in the new creations...
Besides some politeness and empathy, he should learn some English: it is "in the same VEIN", not vain...like his remarks... ;-)

Premiere CC 2014 eating up RAM

When I work in Premiere CC 2014.1, as was the case in prior versions, it is soaking up my RAM. Below are screen shots of when I first open Premiere, up to about 10 minutes later, when almost all of my available memory is shown as used (Premiere gets pokey when working in the timeline at that point). I have no other programs open.
I'm on a 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon mid 2010 Mac Pro
32 GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048 MB (this card is a recent upgrade...was having the same issue with the previous ATI Radeon)
OS 10.9.5
Apple Pro Res 422 media
I have Preferences>Memory set to optimize for Memory and have 28GB available to Premiere.
I'm not using any third party plugins on the timelines I'm working on (nor any effects), though I do have plugins loaded.
I have had this issue when working on my internal Seagate 7200RPM drives as well as my external eSata RAID drives.
Does anyone else have this issue? Any thoughts as to what might be happening? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
--jon--

My Premiere Pro CC 2014 also freezes when I try to export. I do not get any error messages, it just freezes and I have to restart my computer. The only way I can render is to Queue to Media Encoder CC 2014.
I have tried posting my problem many times but this Community Forums will not accept my post and keeps telling me to 'try again later .m4'.

Coreservicesd eating up RAM-Memory

Hello,
our Server (xserve late 2009) 10.8.4 is starting fine, but after some while, the coreservicesd RAM-usage is getting bigger and bigger...
After some Time ist has up to 9GB from 12GB total RAM...
This causes swapping of files and heavy disc-usage..
Our server is 2,26 Quad-Core with 12 GB Ram
Any idea, what can be the reason for it?
Thanks,
Fabian

Hi
If you have it turned on then turn off the screensaver. You should not be running OS X Server with a screensaver set anyway.
HTH?
Tony
PS: HTH = hope this helps

Why Firefox occupies my RAM memory? Two open bookmarks take from 200 mb to 500 mb!!!

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You have nearly run out of disk space. Either purchase a larger one or start cleaning out the one you have?

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