Thanks, Ian. Your suggestions make sense.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Ian Manners" <void@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Clearly OT: Firefox 14.0.1 Churning
> Hi Jim,
>
>> This is clearly OT, but I am getting frustrated with the latest version
>> of
> Firefox. It seems to suffer from memory leak, if that
>> is the term, and churns up processor activity repeatedly.
>
> Could be a number of things, I normally tell people to first remove
> all plugins to rule those out as they are the number 1 suspect if your
> not using a developer build of Firefox.
>
> Noscript is good, no memory leaks.
>
> The Flash plugin combined with some websites is a known offender.
>
> If that doesnt work then back your profile up and delete it. Just add
> your bookmarks back and see how that goes. Sometimes you can end
> up with garbage in your profile's prefs.js file that will lead to firefox
> not
> releasing memory back to the pool after usage.
>
> Sometimes if you update firefox and do not physically remove the
> directory first it can leave something 'older' behind. I've seen this on
> a Mac in the past which is why I always delete then install, as always,
> if your unsure of what to do, backup first.
>
> If the above sounds like another language, apologies, I'll find a webpage
> to translate for you :)
>
> Cheers
> Ian Manners
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