Firefox resource issue

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Steve H

Been having some odd problems with my system recently ( W98SE )...GDI
failures.
Never had such problems on my previous system, and my initial thought
was that it was down to a hardware conflict.
But then I happened to click on the System Resource app and noted the
remaining resources were down to about 10% - a figure I've never seen
so low before.

So, I ran a few trials with various apps and found that the culprit
seems to be Firefox ( 1.0.7 )
I can run the usual swathe of tray apps, plus a database, newsreader (
two instances ) and a word processor and the resources stick at around
the healthy side of the 50% mark.
Adding Firefox pushes the resources down to the 40% mark...but here's
the rub...
After a few page refreshes, plus a couple of tabs opened and closed,
the resources continue to drop...and with every page refresh they drop
by a couple of percent until eventually things start to lock up.

Closing Firefox immediately puts the resources back around the 50%
mark.

I have a feeling that the reason I never noticed it before was that I
had much more ram in my older system, and so never reached a critical
point before I'd finished a browsing session.

Anyone else come across this sort of behaviour?

Regards,
 
Steve said:
Been having some odd problems with my system recently ( W98SE )...GDI
failures.
Never had such problems on my previous system, and my initial thought
was that it was down to a hardware conflict.
But then I happened to click on the System Resource app and noted the
remaining resources were down to about 10% - a figure I've never seen
so low before.

So, I ran a few trials with various apps and found that the culprit
seems to be Firefox ( 1.0.7 )
I can run the usual swathe of tray apps, plus a database, newsreader (
two instances ) and a word processor and the resources stick at around
the healthy side of the 50% mark.
Adding Firefox pushes the resources down to the 40% mark...but here's
the rub...
After a few page refreshes, plus a couple of tabs opened and closed,
the resources continue to drop...and with every page refresh they drop
by a couple of percent until eventually things start to lock up.

Closing Firefox immediately puts the resources back around the 50%
mark.

I have a feeling that the reason I never noticed it before was that I
had much more ram in my older system, and so never reached a critical
point before I'd finished a browsing session.

Anyone else come across this sort of behaviour?

Regards,
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Yes, I have the same problem here. I'm using a ram monitor on my taskbar
and can monitor the resource levels constantly
and have noticed exactly the same thing.

Regards,
John.
 
Steve said:
Been having some odd problems with my system recently ( W98SE )...GDI
failures.
Never had such problems on my previous system, and my initial thought
was that it was down to a hardware conflict.
But then I happened to click on the System Resource app and noted the
remaining resources were down to about 10% - a figure I've never seen
so low before.

So, I ran a few trials with various apps and found that the culprit
seems to be Firefox ( 1.0.7 )
I can run the usual swathe of tray apps, plus a database, newsreader (
two instances ) and a word processor and the resources stick at around
the healthy side of the 50% mark.
Adding Firefox pushes the resources down to the 40% mark...but here's
the rub...
After a few page refreshes, plus a couple of tabs opened and closed,
the resources continue to drop...and with every page refresh they drop
by a couple of percent until eventually things start to lock up.

Closing Firefox immediately puts the resources back around the 50%
mark.

I have a feeling that the reason I never noticed it before was that I
had much more ram in my older system, and so never reached a critical
point before I'd finished a browsing session.

Anyone else come across this sort of behaviour?

Regards,
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Why dont you ask this question in netscape.mozilla.firefox ?

Frank
 
Why dont you ask this question in netscape.mozilla.firefox ?
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Didn't know there was such a group...it's not listed on my news list..
I'll update the list!

Regards,
 
I wondered is there any difference between celeron and pentium?
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IIRC, the only real difference is that Pentiums have
multi-processor features and Celerons don't.

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Steve said:
Didn't know there was such a group...it's not listed on my news list..
I'll update the list!

Regards,
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Steve,

FYI, the Netscape.Mozilla Server, owned by Netscape and propagated to
Usenet, was setup as a service for Web Developers. Due to so many end
users posting questions, most developers have abandoned it. End user
support for Mozilla/Gecko/Netscape is set up in SecNews, also owned by
Netscape but NOT propagated to Usenet. Orders of magnitude more
activity in SecNews (and less BS) than in the Netscape Usenet NGs.

See Chris' home page for info:
(http://www.ilias.ca/)
Subscribing to Sec(http://www.ilias.ca/secnews.html)
SecNews (this ain't Usenet, <g>) posting guidelines:
(http://mozillachampions.ufaq.org/guidelines.html)
(http://ilias.ca/blog/2005/08/guidelines-rules-or-request.html)
General Mozilla support:
(http://www.mozilla.org/support/)

Ron :)
 
Steve said:
So, I ran a few trials with various apps and found that the culprit
seems to be Firefox ( 1.0.7 )
I can run the usual swathe of tray apps, plus a database, newsreader (
two instances ) and a word processor and the resources stick at around
the healthy side of the 50% mark.
Adding Firefox pushes the resources down to the 40% mark...but here's
the rub...
After a few page refreshes, plus a couple of tabs opened and closed,
the resources continue to drop...and with every page refresh they drop
by a couple of percent until eventually things start to lock up.

Closing Firefox immediately puts the resources back around the 50%
mark.

I have a feeling that the reason I never noticed it before was that I
had much more ram in my older system, and so never reached a critical
point before I'd finished a browsing session.

Anyone else come across this sort of behaviour?
Click to expand...

I only have 96 MB RAM on my P166 due to old motherboard. I use FF 1.0.3
but don't run much in System Tray stuff. Always have about 40% free
resources, very seldom a BSOD.

I don't know if 1.0.7 takes more RAM. Am getting ready to go directly to
1.5.

HTH

Mike Sa
 
Been having some odd problems with my system recently ( W98SE )...GDI
failures.
Never had such problems on my previous system, and my initial thought
was that it was down to a hardware conflict.
But then I happened to click on the System Resource app and noted the
remaining resources were down to about 10% - a figure I've never seen
so low before.

So, I ran a few trials with various apps and found that the culprit
seems to be Firefox ( 1.0.7 )
I can run the usual swathe of tray apps, plus a database, newsreader (
two instances ) and a word processor and the resources stick at around
the healthy side of the 50% mark.
Adding Firefox pushes the resources down to the 40% mark...but here's
the rub...
After a few page refreshes, plus a couple of tabs opened and closed,
the resources continue to drop...and with every page refresh they drop
by a couple of percent until eventually things start to lock up.

Closing Firefox immediately puts the resources back around the 50%
mark.

I have a feeling that the reason I never noticed it before was that I
had much more ram in my older system, and so never reached a critical
point before I'd finished a browsing session.

Anyone else come across this sort of behaviour?

Regards,
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This minute on my 98se system,I have firefox 1.5 (5 tabs open)
,thunderbird,kerio 2.15,anivir premium,remind me,roboform,quick resource
meter, ,and gravity newsreader running and also showing in the system
tray.The resources i have left are system 69 gdi 88 and user 69.I would
be very suprised if firefox alone is causing that resource issue (though
it can use 55 meg of ram (which is not related to resources) which is
normal).Are you using any extension plugins? as some of these could be
causing it.
me
 
I can run the usual swathe of tray apps, plus a database, newsreader (
two instances ) and a word processor and the resources stick at around
the healthy side of the 50% mark.
Adding Firefox pushes the resources down to the 40% mark.
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Try not running so many apps at the same time.
 
FTR wrote on 23-11-2005:
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Does this group exist? I'm not getting any headers or body's.
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It isn't a usenet group. Did you get it from the Netscape server ?

secnews.netscape.com port 563.

Regards, John.

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Ron said:
Steve,

FYI, the Netscape.Mozilla Server, owned by Netscape and propagated to
Usenet, was setup as a service for Web Developers. Due to so many end
users posting questions, most developers have abandoned it. End user
support for Mozilla/Gecko/Netscape is set up in SecNews, also owned by
Netscape but NOT propagated to Usenet. Orders of magnitude more
activity in SecNews (and less BS) than in the Netscape Usenet NGs.

See Chris' home page for info:
(http://www.ilias.ca/)
Subscribing to Sec(http://www.ilias.ca/secnews.html)
SecNews (this ain't Usenet, <g>) posting guidelines:
(http://mozillachampions.ufaq.org/guidelines.html)
(http://ilias.ca/blog/2005/08/guidelines-rules-or-request.html)
General Mozilla support:
(http://www.mozilla.org/support/)

Ron :)
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