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I have a memory leak with FF and my Mac

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jeff5656
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I have a memory leak. Whenever FF is loaded, the memory goes up and up and up. If I keep it up for long enough I get page outs and then longer it will slow down so much I have to reboot. The only add-ons I have are stumble, lastpass and evernote. I realize you will all say to disable them, but a better solution would be to try to fix it since I actually WANT to use these add-ons with firefox. I don't have the problem with the one at work although that's a PC and some of the addons are different there. Any suggestions?

See screen shot for the leak

I have a memory leak. Whenever FF is loaded, the memory goes up and up and up. If I keep it up for long enough I get page outs and then longer it will slow down so much I have to reboot. The only add-ons I have are stumble, lastpass and evernote. I realize you will all say to disable them, but a better solution would be to try to fix it since I actually WANT to use these add-ons with firefox. I don't have the problem with the one at work although that's a PC and some of the addons are different there. Any suggestions? See screen shot for the leak

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jeff5656
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Here's the screen shot. Apparently can't upload pics on the initial post.

cor-el
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Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

Hasan
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High Memory Usage

Firefox Consumes a lot of CPU Resources

Check and tell if its working.