Firefox 2.0.0.7 Released

Go Grab it From here..Now available on official site OR Auto Update
Firefox 2.0.0.7

 

good head up, i'll wait for the automatic update.

"Fx 2.0.0.7 is going to be a security fix. This release will address the QuickTime Vulnerability ( http://ffextensionguru.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/quicktime-vulnerability/ )"

cheers ...

 

I have a question that I'm just going to throw out but,

Firefox on vista, when you are opening up alot of tabs with alot of images, your memory is suppose to skyrocket, of course. But when you close these tabs along with all those loaded images, isn't the memory that was allocated to Firefox suppose to be released back?

After using Firefox for 20 minutes or so, theres roughly 200,000k of memory that is being used. Closing tabs and such does nothing. The only thing left to do is to restart firefox. Now i don't have this problem on XP, only on Vista.

This has to do something with superfetch right?

 

Firefox memory leak issue is old thing. Search google.Vista has nothing to do with this issue.

Superfetch is innocent.

 

It does it on XP too.

 

^Not on my computer. I've seen it shoot up to 150k in XP. After closing tabs and such, it goes back down to around 50k.

 

There are various ways for Firefox get rid of the "feature" they have.

http://www.bspcn.com/2007/05/11/15-coolest-firefox-tricks-ever/

Might be useful.

 

While typing this from firefox i only open two tabs (one for NBR & Other one for crickinfo) task manager report 123MB mem use

 

am i missing something in this memory spike that u all talked about?

FF2.0.0.6
- 3 tabs
- typing right now
- cnn video news on another
- ebay item watch
showing less than 90,000k (at 34%)

i have 2 gigo ram, xp full uptodate

cheers ...

 

just shut ff down, memory released instantly
??????

cheers ...

 

Yes close ff and restart.If you want to free up your memory

 

See thats the problem with Firefox that I have. I dont WANT to restart it. After all these releases, I don't understand why they haven't done something about this.

 

It's a feature. Firefox saves all of the pages you just visited in a cache so you don't have to reload them. Side-affect? Memory hogging

 

ok 2nd try:
- 4 tabs
- typing and cnn video news
- downloading ongoing (slow connection at 70+k per sec)
- 82+ mb at fluctuating 64% +/-2
- close 3 tabs, download still going -> 79+mb at fluctuating 5% +/-3
- waiting for download to finish; ff spiking in between 79-84mb at fluctuating 10% +/- 4 (showing transferring data from page.....in nfld windows)
- opening couple apps while waiting: no change in ff (may be due to i have enough ram?)
- download finishing: 78+mb
- close download windows: 66+mb
- clear all cache: 58+mb
- start up a couple sites: fluctuating between 58+ and 64+ depending on the site (wow, learn something doing this)

so, from start (28mb) to full blast at 82+; i avg at 80+mb

cheers ...

 

currently staring at forum windows and typing: at 67+mb and 3-6%
- my browse.cache.memory.capacity is set at 16000
- my disk cache is ff default of 50mb

cheers ...

 

i know how you guys
's can FIx that! here a link

http://www.opera.com/

 

sorry mate ,
O9.5a:
- start up 28+mb
- 4 tabs: 67+mb
- close all tabs except 1: hovering at 57+mb

opera is NOT releasing ram back and still caching, just like ff

cheers ...

 

2.0.0.7 is now on automatic update - more like a patch to 2.0.0.6

cheers ...

 

It broke all my add-ons and themes. Says they will be installed on the next restart, but they do not.

 

?????? mine are all intact

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Not mine. I even downloaded the full 2.0.0.7 and installed it and restarted. Anyone got 2.0.0.6 around to back out to?

 

http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/

cheers ...

 

POS. Still broken. Stuck in some loop where it will install when Firefox is restart, but does not.

Looks to be a good time to go back to using Opera.

UPDATE: I uninstalled Firefox completely and deleted the saved settings, profiles, folders, and debris left behind. Rebooted. Reinstalled Firefox 2.0.0.7. Reconfigured all my settings manually. Redownloaded all the add-ons and themes I had previously installed and reconfigured them. Imported my saved bookmarks. Imported my saved Forecastfox settings.

Should not have been necessary.

UPDATE #2: Although now I do also have my TabMixPlus settings saved for easy recovery in the future!

 

just downloaded it from auto-update...thx for the post

 

Auto update downloaded and installed it, that site just got it a few hours earlier than the world did. No biggie.

 

Every single update I've installed (since 2.0.0.0), it fails to install the partial update then has to restart again and download the full update..
anyone else have this problem?

 

No, never had this problem. Maybe you just disabled auto update by accident?

 

How can you tell what Firefox version you're using. Just curious.

 

Menu/Help/About, just like almost everything.

 

Heh, Firefox 2007.

 

ah. gotcha. thanks JohnDoe

 

it happens when automatic update cannot verify the integrity of the current version. I personally think that the automatic update script still needs a bit of works .

cheers ...

 

Just got the Auto-Update

 

As above!

Everything is running hunky-dory.

 

Same here... with this update my memory is running in the 65-70k area.. down from 150 - 180k.. let's see if it holds up over a few hours.

 

just one tab open - nbr - 37k mem

 

Under processes in the Task Manager, it's showing between 104,000 to 154,000. Is that bad? 2 tabs open.

 

that is quite high! try limit ur browser cache memory capacity to 16000 and see
i only average 90+ with 4 tabs

cheers ...

 

I did a completely fresh install with 2.0.0.7 and show it using approximately 65,000 with two tabs open right now. That is with a Theme and over six add-ons installed.

 

how can i do that?

 

The Motherlode

 

I have 12 themes and 11 extensions installed. Could that be causing it?

 

open a new tab, in address field type in about:config
press enter

2 entries u r looking for:
- browser.cache.memory.capacity (this is an integer : 16000)
- browser.cache.memory.enable (this is a Boolean: true)

double click on the fields let u change the value
close the tab
restart ff

cheers ...

 

I don't know how much a theme actually uses just being available, I would expect not much until it is actually activated as the current theme.

Extensions are a wild card. It really depends upon each individual add-on and the author's attention to storage utilization. Some add-ons are known to be notorious for "memory leaks" and consume more and more until Firefox is restarted.

 

true, and they are all being reviewed and dropped out as ff is moving toward version 3.

cheers ...

 

ghn, I can't find it right now, but I would like to have it bookmarked. Do you recall the website that had the list of those ill-behaved Firefox add-ons?

 

Mine was at 65000 so I changed it to 16000. We'll see how it goes. Thanks.

 

i m not sure what u meant. most of the ill-behaved add-ons were the result of bad written/developed pages within web sites. and most of them, as i m aware, were fixed (worked around) to compensate for the shortcoming of these pages or were fixed when the sites review/rework them

cheers ...

 

I once saw a post with a URL to a page that had a list of some of the ill-behaved add-ons. Just thought you might have known where that was, as I cannot seem to relocate it myself.

 

Question here...Just downloaded and am using Firefox. I have 5 sites tabbed. For some reason, the pointer and site doesnt complete downloading. It shows as complete but the pointer has the little Vista circle running and the bottom right corner says "Transferring data from pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Thoughts?