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bobm94271615
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December 24, 2015
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Flash Player Eating Unlimited Memory

  • December 24, 2015
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Not sure if this is the right place to post this or not. The bug could also be related to a recent Firefox update.

Flash Player is taking exceedingly high amounts of RAM to function. Watching a video online causes it to leech 30MB or so per second. The picture below of the nerdy site showing the high RAM usage. I saw it take 2GB of RAM after leaving it for a while. This causes everything on my computer to run poorly and Firefox becomes unresponsive and will crash. This problem doesn't occur on Youtube.

Possibly related; there are some other websites which lag and don't appear to fully load (the loading circle remains on the tab and never finishes loading). However, this website doesn't give RAM problems like explained above. Link: Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia

I have not had any problems with these websites in the past.

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jeromiec83223024
jeromiec83223024
Inspiring
December 24, 2015

Yeah, I saw another report about this a couple days ago.  It's fallout from a recent change.  It seems to happen in very specific circumstances.  Adobe is effectively shut down for the US holidays, so we're a skeleton crew until January 4th. 

This is definitely on my radar.  We already have a bug open for investigation.  My guess it that we'll have it fixed in the February release, and probably earlier in a beta build.

My guess is that the other websites are failing due to load or connectivity, but if you're still having issues, links to those would also be interesting... particularly if you have the problem in one browser and not others.

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    bobm94271615Author
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    December 25, 2015

    I've looked into it a bit more. Some of the Bulbapedia websites (the one I linked above) DO sometimes cause RAM problems. Ram usage was fluctuating between 15-100MB. Not sure what triggered the RAM consumption problem, but once it began, RAM consumption quickly escalated to 350MB before dropping (I'm guessing 350MB is excessive for this kind of website?) I exited the website before it could continue.

    As for connectivity, I've connected to my router via wi-fi. I have an excellent signal strength and no other phones/laptops have connectivity problems with the router.

    Hope this helps.

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