Leaky Firefox Extensions
April 4th, 2006
A couple of days ago, I talked about Adblock and posted a screenshot of my good friend Quant's Firefox memory usage.
It seems like this uber leakage of 600MB of memory came from Adblock.
This page contains a list of some extensions which are known to be leaky. They include:
- IE Tab 1.0.7
- Session Saver 0.2.1.031
- ForecastFox 0.8.5
- Filterset.G Updater and FlashGot when used together
- Older versions of some extensions including Adblock, Adblock Plus and NoScript. Click on "Find Updates" in Tools > Extensions.
Firefox 1.5.0.1 also fixes several memory leaks from version 1.5.0 so make sure you upgrade.
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