Memory consumption - Firefox

101james

My Firefox, with a moderate numer of tabs (4-5) open and the Zotero plug-in (and nothing else) installed gradually eats up memory. This goes on to the point that it becomes unresponsive or freezes.

Firefox always points to third party plugins. From a scan of the posts here the impression is that Zotero should not lead to this problem. Has this been actually tested by developers (i.e., comparing the memory consumptions of a clean install of Firefox with one with a reasonable sized Zotero database etc. installed?).

I am getting a bit tired of everyone pointing the finger from their corner. Firefox is known for these problems but it would be usefult to have a Zotero take on this.

adamsmith

Given 5.0/FF57, this is pretty much a moot point. I don't think it's really worth going into at this point.

101james

While I follow your point i.e., both recent releases(?) and so untested this is not that reassuring.

The Firefox issue has been an absolute pain and the reason I stopped using the browser for a while. Opening Firefox and then coming back to a half dead computer and a non functioning browser is a huge irritant. Chrome also become unresponsive with all the Google functionality. I just want a stable browser :)

I am hoping Zotero would be more active in terms of planning to test this issue so that, if needs be, the issue can be dumped fair and square on Firefox's table.

adamsmith

In case that wasn't clear -- it's pretty much certain that the 5.0 connector for Firefox won't cause any memory issues (that was, after all, one of the major reasons Firefox changed to the new add-on framework).