Some of the add-ons which cause memory leaks include AdBlock Plus, Video DownloadHelper, Greasemonkey, Firebug, Image Zoom, It’s All Text, Yahoo! Toolbar and McAfee Site Advisor.Īnother major change to the beta of the new version of Firefox is the addition of support of the Opus audio format. Out-of-memory crashes or aborts, particularly on Windows and ARM machines.Occasional drastic slowdowns - particularly on machines with small amounts of RAM such as netbooks - due to the paging of data to and from the hard disk.General sluggishness during basic operations such as scrolling and switching tabs.Long freezes, caused by garbage collection and cycle collection.Users affected by memory leaks will notice high memory consumption by Firefox, which could lead to problems such as: He claims, “ For those users, Firefox 15 is likely to be faster (sometimes drastically so) and less likely to crash, especially if they have multiple add-ons installed and/or keep Firefox running for a long time between restarts.” These compartments are where information from web pages is stored and remains even after you leave the page. Nethercote explains that memory leaks in add-ons are caused by a so called “ zombie compartment”.
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