Possible Memory Issue with NoScript 1.4.9.5?
Something I've had to accept is a slow computer at home... I currently have 1GB of RAM and I'm running Vista (I've purchased new RAM, however I purchased PC-6400 and my board only supports PC-5400 (it won't clock down)). On top of Vista, I'm a Firefox user. While I like the improvements to IE7, I dislike the location of the address bar in relation to the menu bar... and something about Opera just rubs me the wrong way (perhaps the fact that javascript on my pages still doesn't work properly). Anyways... Firefox is a memory hog... (I'm really hoping FF3 fixes this) and I'm used to firefox.exe using 450MB of my precious RAM. However when the latest NoScript update auto-installed, my Firefox memory usage went from 450MB to 750MB. I'm guessing that the latest version of NoScript shouldn't require 300MB of RAM. Has anyone else experienced this issue?
I've never really experienced script timeouts, however I will run firefox for days at a time, and I do use a number of plugins. For example, the machine in the original post is Vista… on this XP box, Firefox (after 3 hours) is at 250MB. I currently have 7 tabs open. I've never been over 450 before, except with the last NoScript and that went away as soon as I disabled it.
i use firefox and noscript – my observations are as follows:
- firefox doesn't use 450MB when it starts (more like 100), but it can certainly grow to that size over time…
- i never let it get that far – at 250-300MB (the point at which i generally start encountering script timeouts) i kill the process and start it again…
- i haven't noticed any recent changes in this behaviour…