All browsers eat over 1GB of memory

Odos270

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I'm really getting sick of this crappola. :mad: Firefox, Chrome and IE all use massive amounts of memory when I'm on a graphics rich page. If I'm on a page with a lot of animated gifs, the amount of ram usage climbs (fast). Then the browser starts stuttering and will hardly scroll. Then they will usually freeze.

And what the blank is up with Chrome? 1 window open but in Task Manager it shows 9 instances of Chrome.

Any other Windows compatible browsers that don't eat so much memory that it makes me think I'm still using a Pentium 166?

Any help/suggestions greatly appreciated.
 

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send me the webpages you have open and I will open them and show you the memory it takes..

here is my firefox with like 20 tabs open.. what are you talking about??

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Ok buddy.. So i'll leave these website up for 1 hour or more and I'll play a game and web browse.. lets see when it hits 1 gig of memory..

you obviously have a leak or a problem with your system..

i'll check back in later.. with the results!!


however, I will say gifs and websites that load up a lot like this do use memory..


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and here you are sir... after leaving it open for a couple of hours using my computer..

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Here's a real good example. 1 tab and on the page for 30 minutes.

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what else do you have open.. that doesn't make sense..

you obviosly have other pages open or a program that may be doing something caching or something..

what are the exact windows you have open and what version of firefox..

run this too..

Free Virus Scan | ESET Online Scanner | ESET


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Also try turning off your Kapersky internet virus software.. that's possible it's affecting something..

Why not just use Defender.. it's actually pretty good.. and always make a Macrium Image backup for those times you just want to go back to when your system worked good..
 

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Programs running:

Firefox 43 (1 window open)
Mailwasher Pro
Thunderbird
Malwarebytes Premium
Kaspersky
TrayCD
Windows Desktop Gadgets (killing it makes no difference).

This started a couple weeks ago. I posted a question at Mozilla https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1103002 and did what was suggested. It didn't help. When I uninstalled Firefox, I used Revo Uninstaller and removed all traces. The only thing I backed up were my bookmarks.

I paused protection (Kaspersky) and no change. I scanned with Spybot, AdwCleaner, Malwarebytes and all that was found were a couple tracking cookies.

And as I stated earlier, this involves all three browsers. :(
 

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does malwarebytes premium, Which I believe has RealTime Scanning, along with Kaspersky maybe RealTime Scanning could be causing an issue.. you never know..

also did you run Firefox in SafeMode?

although the fact you say this happens in all browsers means it's more like something like Malwarebytes Premium and Kaspersky running together trying to check things at the same time or something along those lines..

you have to think like that..


your next best move is to restart windows in SAFE mode with Networking and then go to that website and I GUARANTEE you will not get that memory problem showing you that it's something you have installed.. or a setting you choose wrong.

restart in safe mode with networking and go to that website..
 

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Sorry I took so long to get back, stuff going on. I did start in safe mode and it made no difference. :(
 

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I don't believe that.. you have to show pictures..

If you are in safe mode and still getting memory over 1gig like that, you have a problem with the web browser itself (need to refresh or reset the web browser,) or you have a serious memory leak...

I showed you on my computer what memory was after using it for a long time and opening the 2 web pages..

Should I try again on Chrome? I used firefox.. and even better, you want me to start in Safe mode and show you the difference in memory then?

get Process Explorer..

its time to get to the bottom of this absolutely Ridiculous problem..

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processexplorer.aspx
 

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I reset Firefox, didn't fix the problem. And this was in safe mode.

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the next thing I can think of is process explorer time..

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processexplorer.aspx

we'll probably have to look at firefox and see everything it's doing..

but also in a completely different direction... most will argue it's not a bad thing truthfully that your computer is using it's ram.. in fact, you'd want your computer to use as much ram as possible as its the next best most efficient method of reading and writing data.. extremely fast etc..

you actually want your computer to use as much ram as possible..

based on that note, I need to find out why my computer doesn't use a 1 gig! haha


I wish others would chime in here too.. there are many here who are much more literate in programming and memory management than me who aren't chiming in!
 

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I downloaded Process Explorer (and ran it) but I don't know what I'm supposed to do with it, or be looking for. Sitting here with 1 tab (this site) open, Firefox is using 229MB. 8 tabs open, usage is 480MB.
 

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    AMD FX-6200 (3.8GHz)
    Motherboard
    M3970AM-HP (Angelica2) (Gigabyte)
    Memory
    10GB DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Eyefinity Radeon HD 7570
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    Kaskersky Internet Security 2016

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    windows 8.1
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    Some Chinese Crap..
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    Windows Defender
I've looked at everything that's listed and there are no usual programs running. I have a pretty good idea what should/shouldn't be running. I done the same with Win95, Win98, XP and now 8. When I fired them up for the first time, I opened Task Manager and noted what was running. If I didn't know a program/process, I Googled it.

As for Kaspersky and Malwarebytes running together, there's never been an issue. I've had KIS in for almost 2yrs and Malwarebytes for almost a year.
 

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    HP h8 envy 1534
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    AMD FX-6200 (3.8GHz)
    Motherboard
    M3970AM-HP (Angelica2) (Gigabyte)
    Memory
    10GB DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Eyefinity Radeon HD 7570
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    Kaskersky Internet Security 2016
You know what! i never thought of this, but do you have intel rapid storage or anything like that cache type program that might be doing that??
 

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    Nvidia 755
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