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Memory consuming with Firefox 29.0.1

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xaphar
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Specs Pentium D 3.4 Ghz, DDR2 2 GB, 250 GB SATA with two partitions (windows and all applications partition: 18 GB free of 42 GB, other partition: 13 GB free of 190 GB) Windows 8.1 Ent 64 bit, Firefox 29.0.1 with plugins http://i.imgur.com/0tFbX0Q.jpg and extensions http://i.imgur.com/hQ3H7d0.jpg

Firefox is consuming too much memory. Check http://i.imgur.com/DL4GGME.jpg with one tab opened i.e. Google search. Sometimes it reaches to this http://i.imgur.com/xp39XvZ.jpg

While IE or Chrome does not take too much memory. I don’t know the exact time I am facing this issue. I think this problem occurs in latest versions. May be v24 or newer.

Kindly help

Specs Pentium D 3.4 Ghz, DDR2 2 GB, 250 GB SATA with two partitions (windows and all applications partition: 18 GB free of 42 GB, other partition: 13 GB free of 190 GB) Windows 8.1 Ent 64 bit, Firefox 29.0.1 with plugins http://i.imgur.com/0tFbX0Q.jpg and extensions http://i.imgur.com/hQ3H7d0.jpg Firefox is consuming too much memory. Check http://i.imgur.com/DL4GGME.jpg with one tab opened i.e. Google search. Sometimes it reaches to this http://i.imgur.com/xp39XvZ.jpg While IE or Chrome does not take too much memory. I don’t know the exact time I am facing this issue. I think this problem occurs in latest versions. May be v24 or newer. Kindly help

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cor-el
cor-el
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There have been memory issues reported with the Adblock Plus extension

Start Firefox in 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
xaphar
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I have found a faulty extension Adblock Plus, which is consuming too much memory. If I disable all plugins It consumes 70 MB and after disabling Adblock Plus only It is consuming 110 MB.

Apart from it, Firefox is a more memory consumer. I have IE 11 with only one tab open consuming 19 MB.

Can you suggest anything regarding my whole issue.

Thanks.

Carm
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This run-away memory consumption has been ongoing for several versions of Firefox, I have seen my Firefox use as much as 1 GIG of memory. Nothing i seem to do resolves this issue. It happens on multiple machines, so i know it is not machine specific. Apparently Mozilla programmers dropped the ball again, just like with the plugin-container.exe

What is it going to take for them to figure it out?