Anyone having a problem with firefox being a memory drain?

[realisticphish]

once in a while, it'll randomly jump from 20% usage to 80%, locking up (if i have other programs running), and i have to force quit. still happening with the update. any ideas?


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[Poiuyt]

1. I quit every once in a while and restart

Maybe once a week, I'll quit every program, shut down my computer, wait about 20 seconds, restart and repair permissions. If it seems like Foxfire is getting sluggish, I'll run Onyx to clear out the cache and optimize everything.

[realisticphish]

2. what's onyx?

i've never heard of it

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[Poiuyt]

3. Onyx is free maintainance software for OSX

http://www.titanium.free.fr/english.html

I've also noticed that Firefox just put out an upgrade to version 1.01. I don't know if this does anything to help. It seems like I have the most trouble when there's some javascript on the page I'm visiting. They mention deleting previous versions of Firefox before upgrading. I've never done this in the past, but I guess I should. I also repair permissions before and after every time I add or upgrade new software.

[realisticphish]

4. thanks

i'll give it a try. and i did update to 1.01, but i still have my old one. ill try deleting it first.

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