[Ilugc] Firefox does not start at all
- From: rajasuperman@xxxxxxxxx (Raja Subramanian)
- Date: Mon Jul 14 23:07:59 2008
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:14 PM, swapan karmakar <skrhce2005@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
there is a peculiar problem in fedora 7. firefox browser opened up 3 times
and then it does not start at all...256MB RAM is there & pc configuration is
also upto the mark.
Ensure that you are not running multiple instances of firefox. Use
"ps auxww" in a terminal to list all running process and check output.
Try starting firefox in safe mode without any plugins enabled. Run
"firefox -safe-mode" from your shell prompt.
If safe mode does not work, move your profile folder ~/.mozilla/firefox/
temporarily to another location and then start firefox.
FF2 is a memory hog. My FF2 instances used to take ~1.5GB
of RAM. I have plenty of plugins, ajax apps, several tabs open
and almost never shutdown my computer or close FF for days
on end. Restarting firefox usually cures the RAM usage.
FF3 is much better and even after a week of browsing, it only
consumes ~512MB of RAM.
There are some tweaks that can help reduce FF RAM usage,
but I have not explored any of them. Google is your friend.
- Raja
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