Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

Hi, my Firefox (the latest public version 2.0.0.1) is leaking memory. I know that you think you’ve heard this before and that it’s extensions, or old version, but seriously this has to stop:

Fixed! Removing the Firebug extension completely solves the problem. I don’t know why Firebug leaks memory, but trust me, it does.

Yup, it’s using 623MB of memory. Opening a new tab is visibly sluggish. Closing a tab, clicking on links–every action takes seconds to perform on my Core Duo 2 6600 processor with 4 GB of RAM. Extensions? I’m running two: Firebug and an S3 attachment:

The secret Firefox memory cache page (about:cache) returns nothing out of the ordinary:

Number of entries: 1114
Maximum storage size: 28672 KiB
Storage in use: 75316 KiB
Inactive storage: 0 KiB

I have no idea what’s causing this behavior, so I’m going to ask for help. Digg this and let the world know Firefox *still* has memory management issues.

Imagine some kid putting this on his SAT or homework:

So there’s a new Company of Heroes multiplayer patch out, and no good place to download it from. The official site doesn’t even have it up yet, and every time I try to run it from inside the client I get an error message. So, in the spirit of gaming I’m releasing the Company of Heroes 1.5 patch as a download:

COH_EN_140_150_Patch.exe

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