Re: firefox memory leak

L.V.Gandhi wrote:

I am running sarge with backports using firefox. I found many times
system hanging. I am now only running firefox and konsole.
In the last 30 mins, free gives the following results at various
points of time sequentially as below. first one when I started
machine.

...

Any comments.

And what makes you think it is Firefox to blame? Do you regain the memory after shutting down Firefox? Please check memory usage using "top" or similar application and post the outcomes.

By the way, is it backported Firefox? If so, Debian project can take no responsibility for it.


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