How do I stop Firefox 5.0 being so slow and using far too much memory. I have disabled the plug-in container hoping this would help.

Firefox 5.0 quickly uses 256,000+ of memory and becomes slow enough to use 60% of a twin-code processor and fails to respond for many, many minutes (10 mins +). It is often quicker to kill it ans start again, but this is a pain as I can have up to 4 /5 tabs open.

Try a new Profile and see how it is.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_Windows

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I've just had to roll-back to Firefox 3.6.16.
For those with a similar problem, here's the link:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html
Firefox 4 became unusable. Firefox 3.6.16 is using about 110,00k of memory - but Firefox 4 was using, typically 160,000k but anything up to 200,000k causing my machine to hang as it struggled to find the memory.
The weird thing about the memory use was that it just kept on climbing - just a couple of tabs open, nothing special, but you watch the memory usage keep stepping on in about 200k increments.
There appears to be a major memory leak in Firefox 4, and until it is rectified it really is, for me, completely unusable. I had to use explorer to download 3.6.16 it was that bad.

This is a reply I made to someone else who also finds the same problem. We think it is not a memory leak, but FF4 caching page in RAM.
Reply:
As I long time FF user (1st 20,000 downloaders) I am so disappointed with 4.0.
I find similar problem. 3.6.16 used approx. 6% of 2Gb RAM, 4 has been reported at 25%. Not caused by extensions as installed over 3.6 with no change in same few exts. Many other problems (e.g. 4 fails to remember allowed redirects & many undesired changes) so resorted to backup of 3.6. Not a definitive answer, but one sure to work is to install a totally portable version of 3.6.16 (or even 4 if you wish to play around with it), there are many portable versions available which do not mess with anything else on your machine, just Google Firefox Portable. I almost exclusively use Portable progs. for everything nowadays and if issue crops up it is as simple as deleting the folder it was installed in. Also it can be copied to a Flash Drive complete with all exts. & settings and used on any win os PC. This is a good recommendation. Hope this helps.

I keep getting a pop up saying Firefox is using far too much memory

If I try to download a video or film something that would have taken 30 minutes is now taking 10-12 hours.
My download speed is showing 4.79 MB/sec but it´s certainly not doing that.

This issue can be caused by the presence of leftover files in the Firefox program folder (defaults\pref) like a file firefox.js that overrides the update URL with a wrong link.
See my post here and do a clean reinstall and be sure to remove the Firefox program folder.
* [/questions/826858]
Do a clean (re-)install:
Download a fresh Firefox copy and save the file to the desktop.
* Firefox 4.0.x: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
* Uninstall your current Firefox version and remove the Firefox program folder before installing that copy of the Firefox installer.
* Do not remove personal data if you uninstall the current version.
* It is important to delete the Firefox program folder to remove all the files and make sure that there are no problems with files that were leftover after uninstalling.
Your bookmarks and other profile data are stored elsewhere in the [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox Firefox Profile Folder] and won't be affected by a reinstall, but make sure that you do not select to remove personal data if you uninstall Firefox.

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https://www.cardmemberservices.net/welcome.php

Are you sure about that URL? It's pretty strange for a bank to be using a 2010 copyright in the middle of 2011.
On the FirstNational site, they recommend the latest release of Firefox ([http://www.firstnational.com//001/html/en/personal/faqs/tran/system_technical_requirements.html]).
Anyway, due to changes made to your profile when upgrading to version 3.6, there is no quick and easy way to downgrade to 3.5.

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I Have an exchange 2013 email account which isn't registered as part of my iCloud account.
i Use my outlook calendar (exch) for work and the same exch calendar day to day from all my iOS devices.
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Hello again,
False alarm..... it didnt work sorry.
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She has a hotmail account installed on her IOS iphone 5.
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Can you and will you fix the "plug-in container" using so much memeory problem? I like using firefox, but if this keeps going on I am going to have to start using something like Chrome or going back to I/E.

I use the latest version of Firefox, I run Windows XP on an older computer and the last two updates have included a "plug-in container" that use way too much memory when running a Flash based app. Can and will you be fixing this soon, I have "Googled" the problem and it seems pretty rampant, there are a lot of people having the problem and some who have left Firefox for Chrome, I enjoy using Firefox but if the problem continues I will have to find something else myself.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== After downloading the last two versions of Firefox.

<u>HOW TO TURN OFF PLUGIN-CONTAINER.EXE</u>
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/706123?

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I also recently downgraded my flash player to a recommended version on this website since the latest version crashes too much, that was about the time when I updated firefox, not sure if that might be why this is happening
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