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Are Your Firefox Extensions Crushing Your Computer?

By EAN ⋅ September 7, 2007 ⋅  Email this Post ⋅  Print this Post ⋅ Post a Comment

Memory Leaks and Other RAM Munchers to Watch Out For

My first review on Software Battle! was for the ultra popular web browser, Firefox. Although I gave it a very high rating and recommended that everyone start using it immediately, you may recall that I complained about a few problems with startup speed and memory usage. Asa Dotzler, the esteemed Mozilla employee he is, even commented with a few suggestions for solving my problems. Unfortunately none of them were able to solve my issues.

Today I stumbled across an interesting article detailing issues with a number of rogue Firefox extensions. While it turns out that I don’t have any of the memory leaking extensions installed, it’s a very helpful list for future reference of which extensions I should avoid. For those of you who don’t want to visit the original article, here is a rundown of the extensions that may be giving you problems.

• Adblock
• All-In-One Gestures
• FasterFox
• Firebug
• ForecastFox
• Google Browser Sync
• Google Web Accelerator
• IE Tab
• Loki
• Media Player Connectivity
• Mouseless Browsing
• SessionSaver
• Tabbrowser Extensions

Read the entire article, including fixes and alternatives to these extensions, at CyberNet News.

There is also a HUGE list of problematic extensions here.