ff is using over 2gig of ram on startup how do i fix this
OS is widows 7 64 bit with only 2gigs of ram Firefox has work flawlessly for months but all of a sudden it overloads my ram when I start it, after a minute the ram gets flushed and everything works fine again. Last night I reset Firefox and everything was back to normal, but today its doing the ram hog thing again so resetting it is only a temporary fix. FYI I don't have any add ons or plugins installed and the only software I've installed in the past month is VLC Could this be a malware problem or something to do with VLC?
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Only files with the number in the first file name part matter. The files with a (trailing) time stamp are merely backup files that Firefox may create automatically in some cases (e.g. with upgrading to a next version). You can keep them for backup or remove them if you do not need them, but they shouldn't have effect on how Firefox works.
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Hi hammer0420, I am not sure, but if you keep alot of tabs open, each page will take up some amount of memory.
It seems you have already "about:memory" I currently am running Mac and have this issue also, but I have a large number of add ons, not including VLC, I wonder if this pretains to a number of add ons, I will test a new profile and report back.
So I opened it up in a new profile and the start up was about 160 MB. I also minimized the memory on the about:memory page in the old profile and restarted firefox. The Ram is back down to 128 MB with all the add ons I had and tabs loaded from last time.
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Try to rename (or delete) the sessionstore.js file and possible sessionstore-##.js files with a number and sessionstore.bak in the Firefox profile folder.
- Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Multiple_profile_files_created
Deleting sessionstore.js will cause App Tabs and Tab Groups and open and closed (undo) tabs to get lost and you will have to recreate them (make a note or bookmark them if possible).
You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder:
- Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)
It only happens at start up. No tabs open, no add on and after a minute the ram usage drops to acceptable levels . All the ram problems I've read about have to do with ram building up where as my problem is right at start up. I have never had a problem with Firefox before and this has me stumped and worried that it could be malware . As it came on all of a sudden with no real reason and it came back after a Firefox reset. About:memory wasn't helpfull as during start up (when the ram problem is happening) Firefox is unresponsive, by the time I can get to about:memory the ram usage is perfectly fine..
i've deleted sessionstore.js .there are 2 sessionstore.bak files one with a number at the end. should i delete both?
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Only files with the number in the first file name part matter. The files with a (trailing) time stamp are merely backup files that Firefox may create automatically in some cases (e.g. with upgrading to a next version). You can keep them for backup or remove them if you do not need them, but they shouldn't have effect on how Firefox works.
K thanks I deleted the files but I won't know if it helped as I reset my profile again, if the problem doest come back within the next day or two I will mark the question as answered