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Firfox uses too much buffer

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toplisek
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I have noticed that firefox uses buffer in the following quantity: 1. without open Tabs 164 MB 2. Open Tabs also in the 100% use of buffer (example 700 MB).

I did not notice this unless I have checked this inside tracking buffer usage.PC is working very slowly and specially software like Firefox. I have delay 2 seconds before mouse cursor moves and click. How to deal with this?

I have noticed that firefox uses buffer in the following quantity: 1. without open Tabs 164 MB 2. Open Tabs also in the 100% use of buffer (example 700 MB). I did not notice this unless I have checked this inside tracking buffer usage.PC is working very slowly and specially software like Firefox. I have delay 2 seconds before mouse cursor moves and click. How to deal with this?

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You have a corrupted Firefox 8.0.1 user agent :

i see that:

User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1


You can check the general.useragent prefs on the about:config page. You can open the about:config page via the location bar, just like you open a website.

Filter: general.useragent

If general.useragent prefs are bold (user set) then you can right-click that pref and choose Reset.

See also: Resetting_your_useragent_string_to_its_compiled-in_default

thank you

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toplisek
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Can you please reply?Need help....

toplisek
toplisek Question owner
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Please help as 242 MB is used by 5 Tabs. Is this true as Mozilla is very slow because of this. Is there any solution to this?

ideato
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Try disable BrowserPlus plug-in and check it, you must upgrade firefox too, because 4.0.1 it is not supoorted anymore.


thank you

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toplisek
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Currently I have 8.01 as some plugins can not work with upgrade.

ideato
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Chosen Solution

You have a corrupted Firefox 8.0.1 user agent :

i see that:

User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1


You can check the general.useragent prefs on the about:config page. You can open the about:config page via the location bar, just like you open a website.

Filter: general.useragent

If general.useragent prefs are bold (user set) then you can right-click that pref and choose Reset.

See also: Resetting_your_useragent_string_to_its_compiled-in_default

thank you

Modified by ideato

toplisek
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As I understand it is not RESET: Reset_issue.jpg