Norton reports high memory usage with firefox and it crashes often

Norton antivirus 2011 has pop up warnings reporting high memory usage from Firefox. I have been getting theem often and my computer is crashing often after those pop up warnings. Thanks

Safe mode did not help.
I have disabled ALL extensions and plug-ins, but the problem with "zig-zag" memory usage still remains (I've not tried to leave browser open for the night yet).
I think I'll do clean reinstall with completely new empty profile (without sync'ed information) to try this out. If this works, I'll start adding stuff (configuration, sync, features, etc) to see what causes the problem.

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Computer slows or freezes and displays high memory usage message firefox + thunderbird

When surfing between websites, the computer screen slows or freezes. I hit the return key and the new page can take 2-3 minutes to come up. The screen shows a message that there is high memory use on firefox, and also thunderbird when loading new incoming emails. The internet files are on C so here is a defrag report from 6.7.2011. I hope this helps your diagnosis.
Volume (C:)
Volume size = 29.29 GB
Cluster size = 4 KB
Used space = 7.73 GB
Free space = 21.57 GB
Percent free space = 73 %
Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 13 %
File fragmentation = 27 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %
File fragmentation
Total files = 31,551
Average file size = 364 KB
Total fragmented files = 4
Total excess fragments = 21,222
Average fragments per file = 1.67
Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 395 MB
Total fragments = 2
Folder fragmentation
Total folders = 3,093
Fragmented folders = 1
Excess folder fragments = 0
Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 48 MB
MFT record count = 35,026
Percent MFT in use = 71 %
Total MFT fragments = 3
Fragments File Size Files that cannot be defragmented
7,684 804 MB \Documents and Settings\cameron\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\duo7ne8y.default\Mail\mailbox.aon.at\Inbox
13,535 958 MB \Documents and Settings\cameron\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\duo7ne8y.default\Mail\mailbox.aon.at\Trash

@ kmrupam: 3.40Ghz
@ cor-el disabling hardware acceleration didn't help unfortunately.
Thanks
Simon

Keep getting this msg: AVG HAS DETECTED A HIGH MEMORY USAGE BY FIREFOX--TOTAL MEMORY; 292 MB. I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO CLEAR THIS

see question above and help me please... it's slowing down my computer.
JH

The figure may not necessarily be high depending what you are doing with firefox. Do you know how much RAM is installed on your computer ?
The report is apparently being generated by AVG software, you will need to consult the AVG manual or its faq/site/forum if you want to turn off such notifications.
Note if you go to ''about:memory'' in the firefox location bar it will generate a report that you may find useful. See also [[high memory usage]]

Alerts from Norton re high memory usage by plugin-container.exe

Running Firefox 3.6.13 on Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3. The details from Norton are as follows:
1. Program Path C:\program files\Mozilla firefox\plugin-container.exe
2. Program Description - Plugin Container for Firefox
3. Memory - 1,676 MB used
4. Disk Write Activity - 10 MB (total for this process)
5. File Origin - Source File = updater.exe, File Created: firefox.exe,updater.exe,plugin-container.exe

Probably the alerts are nothing to worry about, and you may wish to suppress that particular alert.
On a couple of old spec legacy machines I recently switched. Partly because of economics, and partly because , of the two, Norton can perform better (in my opinion) on legacy machines.
The first thing I did notice was that Norton does pulse updates and background tasks very frequently (configurations can be changed) by default, and flags up quite a number of alerts.
The Norton (NIS) 'Insight' facility will be flagging up firefox plugin container.exe. It can be configured to suppress the alerts from firefox plugin container, but unless disabled will probably just flag up another busy process or application. It is not flagging it up because it is a known security problem, merely because of the amount of activity.
I imagine the alerts are when you are playing videos, probably with FlashPlayer, and may well depend on the resolution/quality of the videos.
If you think the results are unusual or unexpected see:
*[[High memory usage]]
*[[Firefox consumes a lot of CPU resources]]
PS not sure what is happening with this post are some phrases unacceptable eg alternative expressions about economics; one paragraph was behaving oddly in preview resorted to manually adding break tags to keep it within the container.

Very high memory usage with Yahoo Mail

After using Yahoo Mail for an hour or so my memory usage increases to a very high level.
Just now, after reading and deleting about 50 e-mails (newsletters etc.) I noticed Firefox 17 running slowly and checked the memory usage in Windows Task Manager (I am using XP) and it was 1.2 Gb. My older laptop only has 2 Gb of RAM. Yahoo Mail was the only thing open at the time.
I never notice this problem with Gmail which I mainly use. However I use Yahoo Mail for quite a few newsletters etc. that are less important and which I only check once a week or so.
I found the following bug report about 3 years old which almost exactly describes my problem.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506771
But this report involves a much earlier Firefox version, and at the end it seems to say that the problem was fixed. However it well describes my current issue with Firefox 17, especially the continual increase in memory while using the up/down arrow keys to scroll through Yahoo e-mails.
Is this normal to have to shut down and reopen Firefox every hour or so to clean out the memory? For some reason I only notice this when using Yahoo Mail. After using many other sites and having multiple tabs open for several hours I rarely reach that kind of memory usage. About the highest I've seen with other sites after a couple of hours is 600 Kb which is roughly when I start notice slower response times.

See also:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram
Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
*Do not click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

Config Manager Agent - after Hardware Inventory High CPU Usage with WMIPRSVE and very fast empty Battery

Hi there,
since a few days there is on some machines (40-60) a high cpu usage on one core (quad core cpu machines) with the WMIPRSVE.EXE if the HARDWARE INVENTORY CYCLE started.
i try out some tests, read some forum articles and troubleshooting the WMI management but a real problem i doesn´t see.
in some articles i read that hardware inventory runs about minutes up to more hours but some machines runs longer, someone more as 1 day.
here an example of mine PC:
at 8:07 i started Hardware Inventory Cycle, in the InventoryAgent.log i can see that some Collection Namespace are captured.
after a few minutes there stopped and does nothing round about 5.9 hours or better, after 21436.097 Seconds.
For any hints i am grateful. :)
Inventory: *********************** Start of message processing. ***********************
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:09:56
11088 (0x2B50)
Inventory: Message type is InventoryAction InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 08:09:56 11088 (0x2B50)
Inventory: Temp directory = C:\WINDOWS\CCM\Inventory\Temp\
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:09:56
11088 (0x2B50)
Inventory: Clearing old collected files. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 08:09:56 11088 (0x2B50)
Inventory: Opening store for action {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001} ...
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:09:56
11088 (0x2B50)
CInvState::VerifyInventoryVersionNumber: Mismatch found for '{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}': 4.2 vs. 0.0
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:09:56
11088 (0x2B50)
Inventory: Version number mismatch; will do a Full report.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:09:56
11088 (0x2B50)
Inventory: Action=Hardware, ReportType=ReSync, MajorVersion=5, MinorVersion=0
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:09:56
11088 (0x2B50)
Inventory: Initialization completed in 0.141 seconds
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:09:56
11088 (0x2B50)
Collection: Namespace = \\localhost\root\Microsoft\appvirt\client; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, CachedLaunchSize, CachedPercentage, CachedSize, LaunchSize, Name, PackageGUID, TotalSize, Version, VersionGUID FROM Package; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:09:56
7836 (0x1E9C)
Failed to get IWbemService Ptr for \\localhost\root\vm\VirtualServer Namespace: 8004100E
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:10:02
7836 (0x1E9C)
Failed to enumerate instances of VirtualMachine: 8004100E
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:10:02
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2\sms; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, AddressWidth, BrandID, CPUHash, CPUKey, DataWidth, DeviceID, Family, Is64Bit, IsHyperthreadCapable, IsMobile, IsTrustedExecutionCapable, IsVitualizationCapable, Manufacturer,
MaxClockSpeed, Name, NormSpeed, NumberOfCores, NumberOfLogicalProcessors, PCache, ProcessorId, ProcessorType, Revision, SocketDesignation, Status, SystemName, Version FROM SMS_Processor; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:10:02
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\CCM\powermanagementagent; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, Requester, RequesterInfo, RequesterType, RequestType, Time, UnknownRequester FROM CCM_PwrMgmtLastSuspendError; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:10:03
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, Availability, Description, DeviceID, Manufacturer, Name, Status FROM Win32_IDEController; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:10:03
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2\sms; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, BinFileVersion, BinProductVersion, Description, ExecutableName, FilePropertiesHash, FilePropertiesHashEx, FileSize, FileVersion, HasPatchAdded, InstalledFilePath, IsSystemFile,
IsVitalFile, Language, Product, ProductCode, ProductVersion, Publisher FROM SMS_InstalledExecutable; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:10:03
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, DefaultIPGateway, DHCPEnabled, DHCPServer, DNSDomain, DNSHostName, Index, IPAddress, IPEnabled, IPSubnet, MACAddress, ServiceName FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration; Timeout
= 600 secs. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:06:43 7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\Nap; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, description, fixupState, friendlyName, id, infoClsid, isBound, percentage, registrationDate, vendorName, version FROM NAP_SystemHealthAgent; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:06:43
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2\sms; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, AdditionalProductCodes, CompanyName, ExplorerFileName, FileDescription, FilePropertiesHash, FileSize, FileVersion, FolderPath, LastUsedTime, LastUserName, msiDisplayName,
msiPublisher, msiVersion, OriginalFileName, ProductCode, ProductLanguage, ProductName, ProductVersion, SoftwarePropertiesHash FROM CCM_RecentlyUsedApps; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:06:43
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, BankLabel, Capacity, Caption, CreationClassName, DataWidth, Description, DeviceLocator, FormFactor, HotSwappable, InstallDate, InterleaveDataDepth, InterleavePosition, Manufacturer,
MemoryType, Model, Name, OtherIdentifyingInfo, PartNumber, PositionInRow, PoweredOn, Removable, Replaceable, SerialNumber, SKU, Speed, Status, Tag, TotalWidth, TypeDetail, Version FROM Win32_PhysicalMemory; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:02
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, Availability, Description, DeviceID, InstallDate, Manufacturer, Name, PNPDeviceID, ProductName, Status FROM Win32_SoundDevice; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:02
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, Caption, ClassGuid, ConfigManagerErrorCode, ConfigManagerUserConfig, CreationClassName, Description, DeviceID, Manufacturer, Name, PNPDeviceID, Service, Status, SystemCreationClassName,
SystemName FROM Win32_USBDevice; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:12
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: 62/74 inventory data items successfully inventoried.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:12
7836 (0x1E9C)
Inventory: Collection Task completed in 21436.097 seconds
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:12
7836 (0x1E9C)
Inventory: 12 Collection Task(s) failed. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:07:12 7836 (0x1E9C)
Inventory: Temp report = C:\WINDOWS\CCM\Inventory\Temp\25bf01b2-12fc-4eea-8e97-a51b3c75ba50.xml
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:12
7836 (0x1E9C)
Inventory: Starting reporting task. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:07:12 7552 (0x1D80)
Reporting: 4381 report entries created. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:07:13 7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: Reporting Task completed in 1.030 seconds
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:13
7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: Successfully sent report. Destination:mp:MP_HinvEndpoint, ID: {5541A94A-BED9-4132-AE54-110CB6896F02}, Timeout: 80640 minutes MsgMode: Signed, Not Encrypted
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:13
7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: Cycle completed in 21453.570 seconds
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:30
7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: Action completed. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:07:30 7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: ************************ End of message processing. ************************
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:30
7552 (0x1D80)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, Caption, ClassGuid, ConfigManagerErrorCode, ConfigManagerUserConfig, CreationClassName, Description, DeviceID, Manufacturer, Name, PNPDeviceID, Service, Status, SystemCreationClassName,
SystemName FROM Win32_USBDevice; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:12
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: 62/74 inventory data items successfully inventoried.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:12
7836 (0x1E9C)
Inventory: Collection Task completed in 21436.097 seconds
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:12
7836 (0x1E9C)
Inventory: 12 Collection Task(s) failed. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:07:12 7836 (0x1E9C)
Inventory: Temp report = C:\WINDOWS\CCM\Inventory\Temp\25bf01b2-12fc-4eea-8e97-a51b3c75ba50.xml
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:12
7836 (0x1E9C)
Inventory: Starting reporting task. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:07:12 7552 (0x1D80)
Reporting: 4381 report entries created. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:07:13 7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: Reporting Task completed in 1.030 seconds
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:13
7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: Successfully sent report. Destination:mp:MP_HinvEndpoint, ID: {5541A94A-BED9-4132-AE54-110CB6896F02}, Timeout: 80640 minutes MsgMode: Signed, Not Encrypted
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:13
7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: Cycle completed in 21453.570 seconds
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:30
7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: Action completed. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:07:30 7552 (0x1D80)
Inventory: ************************ End of message processing. ************************
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:07:30
7552 (0x1D80)

InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 08:10:03
7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\cimv2; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, DefaultIPGateway, DHCPEnabled, DHCPServer, DNSDomain, DNSHostName, Index, IPAddress, IPEnabled, IPSubnet, MACAddress, ServiceName FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration; Timeout
= 600 secs. InventoryAgent
18.03.2015 14:06:43 7836 (0x1E9C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\Nap; Query = SELECT __CLASS, __PATH, __RELPATH, description, fixupState, friendlyName, id, infoClsid, isBound, percentage, registrationDate, vendorName, version FROM NAP_SystemHealthAgent; Timeout = 600 secs.
InventoryAgent 18.03.2015 14:06:43
7836 (0x1E9C)
Looks like something in one or both of those wmi queries. it goes from 8:10:03 to 14:06:43 right around there. 6 hours to do that...
try running those queries from wbemtest manually; and see which one just never finishes.
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Excessive memory usage with FireFox 3.6.8

Is it normal for the total memory footprint of FireFox.exe and Plugin-Container.exe to be 1.14GB (488MB and 651MB respectively)?
When first opening FireFox, it's footprint is approx 30MB, but inexorably creeps upward as I browse (typically YouTube/Hulu/4chan/GMail), consuming nearly 60% of total system memory before performance loss demands a browser restart.
Is there any workaround or update/patch or command-line argument that will cap memory usage? Will rolling back to an earlier version of FF solve the problem, or is it a problem with Flash? Any advice would be appreciated.

This is caused by the Flag Fox add-on, you can either disable or uninstall it.
# Open the add-ons manager - in the menus select Tools, then Add-ons
# In the add-ons manager go to the Extensions panel
# In the list of add-ons click on Flag Fox to select it, then either click on the Disable or Uninstall button
# Re-start Firefox to complete the process
Do you have Personas Plus 1.6 installed? If you do try disabling that one instead, it has been causing problems with add-ons.

I keep getting a message saying Performance alert high memory usage by firefox what can I do about this. Patricia

I have gone into the History and deleted all the pages would this help reduce the memory usage.

Do a malware check with some malware scan programs. 
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. 
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of the database before doing a scan. 
* http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
* http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
* http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
* http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
* http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked and [[Searches are redirected to another site]]

My system is very, very, very slow, and i keep getting a pop up saying high memory usage by firefox, last one was 63 percent of at last 1cpu, how can i fix this

i keep getting a unrespondsive script box when i try to pull
up my comcast page, this is my network provider, comcast shows there is internet service coming into my home, and i know i need to clean up my computer, but don't know how'''bold text'''

i keep getting a unrespondsive script box when i try to pull
up my comcast page, this is my network provider, comcast shows there is internet service coming into my home, and i know i need to clean up my computer, but don't know how'''bold text'''

High memory usage OSX Lion on iMac

Hi,
Recently upgraded 2006 iMac 6.1 to OSX 10.7.2 (4GB). Noticed performance dropped significantly when 2 or more users are logged in especially when switching users. Observed memory usage for OSX Lion is far higher than Snow Leopard! By startup 2GB real memory already allocated and often down to last 500MB. Performance appear to slow down due to swapping as swap i/o appears to increase.
On snow leopard I had 6 users logged in and 4GB was plenty. Lion appears to be a MS product!!!!
Anyone else experienced high memory usage on Lion and any ideas how to reduce memory consumption?
Unfortunately at the maximum memory capacity for my my iMac so need to find ways to reduce memory usage. There must be a kernel compiler option that could reduce memory.....
Also considering SSD drive to speed up swap i/o read/writes.
Otherwise will have to go back to leopard :-(
Thanks for any help in advance.
-Dav
PS> OSX Lion is alot more stable than previous OSX releases with this iMac model. Especially iMacs suffering the notorious NVDIDIA GPU heat problems...

You mac can handle up to 3gb of ram, but slightly more will be available with 4gb installed. For Lion to run smooth, a true 4gb of ram is preferred, which may explain the sluggishness of your mac.

I keep getting a box that pops up saying "High CPU useage with Firefox". What do I do?

Sometimes a box pops up saying "High CPU usage with Firefox".
I'm not sure what to do or if this is harming my laptop.

Well i tried the Microsoft Malware and everything is fine on this end and you are still crashing on me so with that said,i am giving you one more day to resolve this issue if i still get crashes from you i am sorry to say i will have to try another company as my browser and see if i have an issue with them if i don't,i will not be reinstalling Firefox again if i do,then it may be another issue so i will have to see but i have no Malware here but thank you for your response anyway...

Firefox becomes really slow then eventually unresponsive when loading a page with many hires images. Unsual high memory usage up to 2gigs just for firefox. Was never a problem with v3.6.

When loading a page with many hires images, Firefox becomes really slow and scrolling becomes jumpy then eventually becomes completely unresponsive. Unusual high memory usage of up to 2gigs just for firefox when loading these pages. This was never a problem with v3.6.

I encountered the same type of problem. Firefox running terribly slowly and slowing down my entire machine (Core i5 with 256GB SSD). Searching the forums, I found a couple of things about troubleshooting performance issues, one of which was to use '''hardware acceleration''', that is on by default. It was turned on on my PC, '''so I tried deactivating it, and it worked!'''
So doing the exact opposite as Mozilla support said solved the problem. It is really a pain now to work with Firefox. I'm using it because I have no choice, but I'd recommend IE and Chrome over Firefox... Whatever, the market will decide once Firefox has become to crappy...

I get daily messages stating high memory usage exists on my firefox. How do I solve this?

A rectangular box shows up once a day on lower right corner of screen. Has a graph on it and says high memory usage. What do I do to lower it?

Thanks, but answers that begin with the word "try", in my experience, are usually just vague guesses.
I found the solution on my own...
Rip out everything Firefox and Mozilla from your computer, including in both Library folders. Throw it all in the trash and empty the trash.
Then download and install a fresh copy of Firefox.
Next time, I will simply rip everything out and LEAVE it out, because this esnips crap is a longstanding MAJOR invasion, mozilla knows it, and they do NOTHING about it. WORSE, it is not possible to contact mozilla in any way. Obviously, they DO NOT CARE!! Otherwise any attempt by esnips to sneak their crap onto a computer would be spotted and INTERRUPTED by Firefox, which obviously, is not the case.
Esnips turns FIrefox into useless crap software. I recommend Googlechrome.
And why on Earth is Mozilla not suing the people who force this esnips junk on their users? Esnips is USING Firefox to sneak into Firefox cusomters' computers and take a big dump in their machines.

Everytime time I try to upload a document or an image, it takes for ever and ever. I get a warning saying " High CPU usage by Firefox " How do I change this ? Can anyone explain ? thanks Lazarus 3

Everytime time I try to upload a document or an image, it takes for ever and ever. I get a warning saying " High CPU usage by Firefox " How do I change this ? Can anyone explain ? thanks Lazarus 3

Here is the new troubleshooting information, if it helps.
Application Basics
Name: Firefox
Version: 24.0
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0
Extensions
Important Modified Preferences
browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false
browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: false
browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20130910160258
browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 24.0
extensions.lastAppVersion: 24.0
gfx.blacklist.webgl.msaa: 4
network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true
plugin.importedState: true
plugin.state.silverlight: 0
privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: true
Graphics
Device ID: 0x 655
GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1 OpenGL
Vendor ID: 0x10de
WebGL Renderer: NVIDIA Corporation -- NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OpenGL Engine
windowLayerManagerRemote: false
AzureCanvasBackend: quartz
AzureContentBackend: none
AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: none
JavaScript
Incremental GC: true
Accessibility
Activated: false
Prevent Accessibility: 0
Library Versions
NSPR
Expected minimum version: 4.10
Version in use: 4.10
NSS
Expected minimum version: 3.15.1 Basic ECC
Version in use: 3.15.1 Basic ECC
NSSSMIME
Expected minimum version: 3.15.1 Basic ECC
Version in use: 3.15.1 Basic ECC
NSSSSL
Expected minimum version: 3.15.1 Basic ECC
Version in use: 3.15.1 Basic ECC
NSSUTIL
Expected minimum version: 3.15.1
Version in use: 3.15.1

Very high memory usage..possible memory leak? Solaris 10 8/07 x64

Hi,
I noticed yesterday that my machine was becoming increasingly slow, where once it was pretty snappy. It's a Compaq SR5250NX with 1GB of RAM. Upon checking vmstat, I noticed that the "Free" column was ~191MB. Now, the only applications I had open were FireFox 2.0.11, GAIM, and StarOffice. I closed all of them, and the number reported in the "Free" column became approximately 195MB. "Pagefile" was about 5.5x that size. There were no other applications running and it's a single user machine, so I was the only one logged in. System uptime: 9 days.
I logged out, logged back in, to see if that had an affect. It did not. Rebooted and obviously, that fixed it. Now with only FireFox, GAIM, and a terminal open, vmstat reports "Free" as ~450MB. I've noticed if I run vmstat every few seconds, the "Free" total keeps going down. Example:
unknown% vmstat
kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
r b w   swap free re mf pi po fr de sr cd s0 s1 s2   in   sy   cs us sy id
0 0 0 870888 450220 9 27 10 0 1 0 8 2 -0 -0 -0 595 1193 569 72 1 28
unknown% vmstat
kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
r b w   swap free re mf pi po fr de sr cd s0 s1 s2   in   sy   cs us sy id
0 0 0 870880 450204 9 27 10 0 1 0 8 2 -0 -0 -0 596 1193 569 72 1 28
unknown% vmstat
kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
r b w   swap free re mf pi po fr de sr cd s0 s1 s2   in   sy   cs us sy id
0 0 0 870828 450092 9 27 10 0 1 0 8 2 -0 -0 -0 596 1193 570 71 1 28
unknown%Output of prstat -u Kendall (my username ) is as follows:
   PID USERNAME SIZE   RSS STATE PRI NICE      TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
2026 Kendall   124M   70M sleep   59    0   0:01:47 1.4% firefox-bin/7
1093 Kendall    85M   77M sleep   59    0   0:07:15 1.1% Xsun/1
1802 Kendall    60M   15M sleep   59    0   0:00:08 0.1% gnome-terminal/2
1301 Kendall    93M   23M sleep   49    0   0:00:30 0.1% java/14
1259 Kendall    53M   15M sleep   49    0   0:00:32 0.1% gaim/1
2133 Kendall 3312K 2740K cpu1    59    0   0:00:00 0.0% prstat/1
1276 Kendall    51M   12M sleep   59    0   0:00:11 0.0% gnome-netstatus/1
1247 Kendall    46M   10M sleep   59    0   0:00:06 0.0% metacity/1
1274 Kendall    51M   13M sleep   59    0   0:00:05 0.0% wnck-applet/1
1249 Kendall    56M   17M sleep   59    0   0:00:07 0.0% gnome-panel/1
1278 Kendall    48M 9240K sleep   59    0   0:00:05 0.0% mixer_applet2/1
1245 Kendall 9092K 3844K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% gnome-smproxy/1
1227 Kendall 8244K 4444K sleep   59    0   0:00:01 0.0% xscreensaver/1
1201 Kendall 4252K 1664K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% sdt_shell/1
1217 Kendall    55M   16M sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% gnome-session/1
   779 Kendall    47M 2208K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% gnome-volcheck/1
   746 Kendall 5660K 3660K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% bonobo-activati/1
1270 Kendall    49M   10M sleep   49    0   0:00:00 0.0% clock-applet/1
1280 Kendall    47M 8904K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% notification-ar/1
1199 Kendall 2928K 884K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% dsdm/1
1262 Kendall    47M 2268K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% gnome-volcheck/1
Total: 37 processes, 62 lwps, load averages: 0.11, 0.98, 1.63System uptime is 9 hours, 48 minutes. I'm just wondering why the memory usage seems so high to do...nothing. It's obviously a real problem as the machine turned very slow when vmstat was showing 195MB free.
Any tips, tricks, advice, on which way to go with this?
Thanks!

Apologies for the delayed reply. School has been keeping me nice and busy.
Anyway, here is the output of prstat -Z:
   PID USERNAME SIZE   RSS STATE PRI NICE      TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
2040 Kendall      144M   76M sleep   59    0   0:04:26 2.0% firefox-bin/10
28809 Kendall     201M 193M sleep   59    0   0:42:30 1.9% Xsun/1
2083 Kendall      186M   89M sleep   49    0   0:02:31 1.2% java/58
2260 Kendall       59M   14M sleep   59    0   0:00:00 1.0% gnome-terminal/2
2050 Kendall       63M   21M sleep   49    0   0:01:35 0.6% realplay.bin/4
2265 Kendall     3344K 2780K cpu1    59    0   0:00:00 0.2% prstat/1
29513 Kendall     71M   33M sleep   39    0   0:07:25 0.2% gaim/1
28967 Kendall     56M   18M sleep   59    0   0:00:24 0.1% gnome-panel/1
29060 Kendall     93M   24M sleep   49    0   0:02:58 0.1% java/14
28994 Kendall     51M   13M sleep   59    0   0:00:23 0.1% wnck-applet/1
28965 Kendall     49M   14M sleep   59    0   0:00:33 0.0% metacity/1
   649 noaccess   164M   46M sleep   59    0   0:09:54 0.0% java/23
28996 Kendall     51M   12M sleep   59    0   0:00:50 0.0% gnome-netstatus/1
2264 Kendall    1352K 972K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% csh/1
28963 Kendall 9100K 3792K sleep   59    0   0:00:03 0.0% gnome-smproxy/1
ZONEID    NPROC SWAP   RSS MEMORY      TIME CPU ZONE
     0           80          655M 738M    73%       1:18:40 7.7% global
Total: 80 processes, 322 lwps, load averages: 0.27, 0.27, 0.22Sorry about the bad formatting, it's copied from the terminal.
In any event, we can see that FireFox is sucking up 145MB (??!?!!? crazy...) XSun, 200MB, and java 190MB. I'm running Java Desktop System (Release 3) so I assume that is what accounts for the the high memory usage RE: java process. But, XSun, 200MB?
Is this normal and I just need to toss another gig in, or what?
Thanks

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