firefox uses up a lot of ram
 

after using firfor for a while on my pc it starts to use up all my cpu and I have to exit it and reopen it. When I reopen it, it doesnt use that much pcu. What can I do about this and y does it happen. I am using internet explorer now cuz firfox is annoying.

Re: firefox uses up a lot of ram
 

reinstall Firefox and only install the extensions that you need or just uninstall extensions. You can back up all your Firefox data... recently Firefox has become a bit buggy but there working to fix that I believe.

Re: firefox uses up a lot of ram
 

what are extensions and how do I go about messing with all that? Is there a site to help me out?

Re: firefox uses up a lot of ram
 

If you don't know what extensions are, you probably don't have any installed.

Re: firefox uses up a lot of ram
 

I don't know if there is a solution for this. Get more RAM? My FF does the same thing but I have enough RAM so it doesn't bother me.

Re: firefox uses up a lot of ram
 

Firefox uses a lot of RAM and has a number of memory leaks. Its just the way it is.

Re: firefox uses up a lot of ram
 

it seems that internet explore does the same thing takes up about 65% on average, where as firefore was taking up 90%+
which reall effects how things run on my pc

Re: firefox uses up a lot of ram
 

My firefox uses up quite a lot too, but my PC has 2GBs of RAM so it doesn't affect anything.

Re: firefox uses up a lot of ram
 

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Firefox uses a lot of RAM and has a number of memory leaks. Its just the way it is.

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... I gave bad advice up there... thought there was a software stability problem... this is correct.

Re: firefox uses up a lot of ram
 

Firefox does have memory leaks but this doesn't explain why his cpu usage is so high. Demon, I think you may have issues with your PC other than Firefox.

Please submit a HijackThis log if you're interested in diagnosing this problem. In your post include what type of processor you have, amount of RAM, how full your hard drive is, and how long it has been since you defragged.