Hi,
I recently upgraded my RAM from 256MB to 1.25 GB as my Acer Travelmate was running fairly slowly.
I am running Firefox 2.0 and have set up the about:config tweaks commonly discussed on this forum (pipelining, prefetching etc)
However, my laptop still slows down a lot from time to time. I suspect it might be a memory leak but when I open the Process part of Windows Task Manager, Firefox is the only program allocated large chunks of memory.
On different occasions I have checked and it has anywhere between 100MB to 600MB allocated. Whats more it seems to be constantly gradually increasing within each session. i.e. if I end Firefox and start again it starts with a small but steadily increasing memory allocation.
Does it sound like my Firefox has a memory leak? Or is it just all the prefetching etc that is causing sessions to end up utilising such large chunks of memory?
Many Thanks
Alan
PS I regularly run Spybot, Ad-Aware and AVG and am relatively confidant that my laptop is pretty clean of malware - so I dont think thats the problem.
I recently upgraded my RAM from 256MB to 1.25 GB as my Acer Travelmate was running fairly slowly.
I am running Firefox 2.0 and have set up the about:config tweaks commonly discussed on this forum (pipelining, prefetching etc)
However, my laptop still slows down a lot from time to time. I suspect it might be a memory leak but when I open the Process part of Windows Task Manager, Firefox is the only program allocated large chunks of memory.
On different occasions I have checked and it has anywhere between 100MB to 600MB allocated. Whats more it seems to be constantly gradually increasing within each session. i.e. if I end Firefox and start again it starts with a small but steadily increasing memory allocation.
Does it sound like my Firefox has a memory leak? Or is it just all the prefetching etc that is causing sessions to end up utilising such large chunks of memory?
Many Thanks
Alan
PS I regularly run Spybot, Ad-Aware and AVG and am relatively confidant that my laptop is pretty clean of malware - so I dont think thats the problem.