New Firefox 57 is killing my system!
I downloaded the new version 57 yesterday. All of a sudden, it's running very s-lo-w-l-y. When task Manager finally opened, I saw FF eating up 2000 + MB. and increasing rapidly to over 3000. I closed FF and re-opened. All I had open was a Tab for Yahoo. I took a screenprint, which is attached. Shows using > 2000MB.
Firefox, I think there's something seriously wrong.
Kathleen
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Ok sounds like a memory leak. Can you please report the problem here? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi#h=bugForm%7CFirefox
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If you think you might want to access any of your Firefox data in the future, you can do this instead.
Set Windows to show hidden files and folders:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14201/windows-show-hidden-files
Rename
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox
to
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\FirefoxOLD
and delete
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox
jscher2000: thanks, but I won't need them.
topic is ended now.
Firefox, has been broken for a while now.
I rolled back to version 50 and installed SpyBot to help protect me, in addition to my virus protection.
I get HUGE LONG PAUSES with any newer version, memory surges to the GB, and I go to over 400 MB just opening version 56 and 57.
Firefox has FAILED us, so I encourage EVERYONE to go back to version 50 for the next year.
When IE is better than you, Fireflop, you failed.
Hi mbcopeland, as far as I can tell, this is your first post on the forum here. You should start a new thread and get advice customized to your situation. You can use this link, and scroll down past suggestions to continue with the form:
https://support.mozilla.org/questions/new/desktop/fix-problems