There was a workaround to use the Legacy add-ons, but that appears to have been "fixed" now. 
Posted on 10/08/2017 8:50:21 PM PDT by SteveH
what is up with firefox 56.0 memory consumption?
i am seeing memory leak symptoms that manifest fairly quickly (an hour or two of my normal usage).
add ons
openh264 video codec cisco 1.6 widevine content google 1.4.8.1008 shockwave flash adobe 27
Does Brave have something equivalent to the NoScript addon for Firefox? I loathe letting any site execute javascript without my permission.
I tried Palemoon, Cyberfox and Comodo Ice Dragon. They are all based on the Mozilla/Firefox code.
I found that many of my extensions would not work the 64-bit versions of those programs. Many of the extensions worked very well with the 32-bit versions, as Firefox is(was) a 32-bit program.
However, over the years those programs have become too problematic. It is frustrating to have programmers change programs just for the sake of changing them. I have given up many programs, utilities, extensions over the years because programmers took out the features I used or made the programs no longer useful. Upgrades/updates seem to break more things than they fix.
Bkmkfl
roflmao
i have the flash addon as “always ask.”
apparently that is not enough...
wow, political correctness may adversely affect content delivery AND product quality...
in the old days, there was only memory leak, or no memory leak...
we live in interesting times... sigh...
Wow, well thank you for the tips!
So it is the flash that is making the FireFox bleed memory? Interesting—it did not used to be so bad, but now I have to close it and reopen it every couple hours.
I use snag-it to record stuff—mostly GoToMeeting webinars, and they are all mp4 files.
I also watch a lot of YouTube—which I hope are mp4.
the rest of the videos on news sites, etc. I don’t mind skipping.
Bkmk
ping
I turned off flash totally and now i am now still creeping up to 847 Mb (on a PC) after watching a few youtube videos. I wonder if casting of aspersions of memory abusage by add-ons is entirely justified.
I am reading about rust, but if they have extensively used it, then it does not seem to be doing them any good.
Personally (trying to phrase this diplomatically) I think that ansi C works very well if not near optimally well for complex programs— eg, kernels and RDBMSs.
It does not run very well on iOS.
Crashes frequently
But I do like it on my Windows 7 machine.
It’s always been a pig. 57 may fix that. Supposedly it is adopting a new thread model more like Chrome.
RE: It does not run very well on iOS.
Crashes frequently
But I do like it on my Windows 7 machine.
I use it all the time on my iphone without any problems.
Don’t use it much at all on Windows 7 because it doesn’t work with my Scottrade streaming quotes.
It has similar source code to Firefox and the same memory issues.
Oh, and part of this coercion? They're stopping the usability of any add-on that they deem "Legacy" -- that is, not ready for FF 57. There was a workaround to keep those add-ons working, but as of a few days ago, the workaround didn't work any more.
I'm using Brave for now (which I have a separate list of issues about), so I hope these authors update their add-ons soon...
There was a workaround to use the Legacy add-ons, but that appears to have been "fixed" now.
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