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dougk_t3
McAfee Employee
McAfee Employee
Message 31 of 40

Re: Mcafee Siteadvisor 3.4.0 Memory leak in Firefox 8.0 and 7.0.1

Just following up - we made some changes a couple of weeks ago that should have addressed this issue. 

I'd like to find out if anyone is still experiencing memory leak issues with Firefox or Chrome (with SiteAdvisor plugin enabled, of course) - please let me know.

dps_mcafee
Former Member
Message 32 of 40

Re: Mcafee Siteadvisor 3.4.0 Memory leak in Firefox 8.0 and 7.0.1

Sorry I have taken so long to reply.

I believe the major memory leak issue has been resolved and have confirmed it on a about 3 PCs. This is with Windows XP and using Firefox 8.0.

I have seen a much slower leaking than was observed before, this one is about 100Kb/sec and not as drastic as was seen before. Then after a few minutes a recovery occurs and the memory usage drops. Also the processor usage is a lot lower than before when nothing is happening.

Although Firefox memory usage is creping up over a few hours, it's NOT the big issue it was.

It has reach the point when SiteAdvisor is left installed on my PC.

So well done for fixing the major memory leak issue. [:)]

Message was edited by: dps_mcafee on 11/12/11 07:11:28 CST
stephe
Contributor II
Message 33 of 40

Re: Mcafee Siteadvisor 3.4.0 Memory leak in Firefox 8.0 and 7.0.1

I have Firefox 8. My PC is a Dell XPS 400 Pentium D with CPU 3.00Ghz

running Windows XP with Service Pack 3, and has 3.00 GB of RAM

(which I manually upgraded from the factory installed 1.00 GB RAM).

I have Process Lasso running, which I got from the giveawayoftheday.com

site ( http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/process-lasso-pro-51/ ).  This

program shows the amount of usage of my CPU and RAM every time I

mouse over its icon in my systray.

Earlier today, while having 5 tabs open in Firefox, I moused over

the Process Lasso icon in the systray and the RAM was at 80%, so no,

I don't think the problem has been solved.

davoud1
Contributor
Message 34 of 40

Re: Mcafee Siteadvisor 3.4.0 Memory leak in Firefox 8.0 and 7.0.1

Please make sure you have SiteAdvisor 3.4.1.195. The leak was in SA 3.4. You can install this from siteadvisor.com.

Also, please note that the RAM can be at 80%. but should recover when you close all the tabs.

stephe
Contributor II
Message 35 of 40

Re: Mcafee Siteadvisor 3.4.0 Memory leak in Firefox 8.0 and 7.0.1

In Firefox, if I go to the menu bar and choose Tools > Add-ons I see:

McAfee SiteAdvisor 3.4.1.123

In McAfee Security Center, if I click on About and scroll down, I see:

McAfee SiteAdvisor

Version: 3.4

Build: 3.4.1.195

Last Update: 2/25/2012

And yes, my RAM recovers when I close all Firefox tabs.

I am worried about updating to Firefox 10 in case SiteAdvisor

won't work with Firefox 10 (and so I haven't updated Firefox

to version 10).  Should I be worried?

davoud1
Contributor
Message 36 of 40

Re: Mcafee Siteadvisor 3.4.0 Memory leak in Firefox 8.0 and 7.0.1

No worries. We work with FF 10. I use it all the time.

stephe
Contributor II
Message 37 of 40

Re: Mcafee Siteadvisor 3.4.0 Memory leak in Firefox 8.0 and 7.0.1

When I went to update Firefox to version 10.0.2, a window came up

that said:

Incompatible Add-ons Found

Some of your add-ons won't work with this update, and will be

disabled.  As soon as they are made compatible, Firefox will

update and re-enable these add-ons:

McAfee ScriptScan for Firefox 14.4.1

Incidentally . . .

In Firefox, when I go to the menu bar and choose Tools > Add-ons,

in Plugins I see:

McAfee SiteAdvisor 3.4.1.123

In Firefox, when I go to the menu bar and choose Tools > Add-ons,

in Extensions, I see:

McAfee SiteAdvisor 3.4.1.195

exbrit
MVP
MVP
Message 38 of 40

Re: Mcafee Siteadvisor 3.4.0 Memory leak in Firefox 8.0 and 7.0.1

It's a false alarm, simply go into your add-ons/extensions and check that SiteAdvisor and Scriptscan are enabled.  The warning should have stated

Some of your add-ons may not work with this update, and could be

disabled.

There are 2 different .dll's involved, hence those 2 different versions showing in different areas.  Just click to the right of your SiteAdvisor icon and select 'About' and it will tell you the correct version - the latest being 3.4.1.195

stephe
Contributor II
Message 39 of 40

Re: Mcafee Siteadvisor 3.4.0 Memory leak in Firefox 8.0 and 7.0.1

I just upgraded to Firefox 10, and it seems to have been a

false alarm, just as you said.

Thanks.

And thanks for the explanation about the 2 different .dll's, too.

exbrit
MVP
MVP
Message 40 of 40

Re: Mcafee Siteadvisor 3.4.0 Memory leak in Firefox 8.0 and 7.0.1

That's great.  Works fine in mine too.

😉

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