It hurts when I have to uninstall firefox extension “FireBug” which always helped me in re-building my website. But i was left with no other option till I encounter this alarming stats in my task manager .
220 mb of memory eaten for mozilla firefox :-O
For the last couple of weeks , my computer was getting slow in a strange manner. At times to recognize keystrokes , it was taking seconds .. which was bugging me to the core. Finally today when i got some time , I thought of analyzing it. I was noticing sudden boost in Mozilla’s memory usage. I was using Firefox 2.0.0.4 and as per cybernetnews Firefox 2.0 has 13 memory leaks fixed compared to previous versions.
I searched and even this article was not able to help till much extent. Starting firefox will take the memory usage to 60k memory . I dont know why !! Anyway Elliott found his problem fixed by uninstalling firebug and I was also left with no other option other than doing the same.
I can say that it has improved my system performance to some extent. Keystrokes takes no more seconds to get identified.
May be I will install firebug next when i will be developing my own theme now. Till then I am sticking to this 3column Pressrow theme.
You can read more about firefox memory leak, without blaming firebug here.
no wonder Firefox was so slow for the past few weeks.
by the way you can have multiple profiles in firefox with different extensions
@arpit ..will multiple profiles help?? After all the instance of firefox is the same