Your computer is low on memory
I have a memory problem very often, the system always show the below me the message and crash: Close programs to prevent information loss, your computer is low on memory. save your files and close these programs: Firefox. See image below.
But I still have 3.1G free memory. I am using an i5 8G ram, notebook. win10 x64 pro, virtual memory 512-1024M, current load 720M, Primo ramdisk: 1G ramdisk for temp and browser Firefox is 51.0.1 any advice from your guys?
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any advice from your guys? I saw some solutions from OS Registry side, but why Firefox get this message every time?
anybody to help?
Modified by oldman1881
Hi, sorry you haven't had a reply before, maybe because this might not be a Firefox issue. Does this ONLY happen when using Firefox - does it occur if you use a different browser?
If this is only a Firefox issue: You seem to have 3 versions of CFCA CryptoKit 3.0 for Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera - Add-ons Manager (Ctrl+Shift+A) > Plugins, which isn't a plugin I recognize, and multiple versions may cause problems, so perhaps you should uninstall the old ones from your PC, or at least disable any others that you don't use in the FF Add-ons Manager.
If this is a Windows issue as it seems to be, I suggest you ask in a specialist forum such as https://www.tenforums.com/
In the screen shot, you'll see a statistic called Committed. In the windows 10 Task Manager, on the Details tab, you probably can add a column called Commit Size which shows applications that have reserved additional memory. On mine, Firefox typically has a much larger number in that column (on Windows 7, this is on the Processes tab, example attached).
I don't know if there is a way to shrink that number much -- other than, in my case, closing out of Facebook. This article may have some tips: Firefox uses too much memory or CPU resources - How to fix.
Since you have 64-bit Windows, you could consider using the 64-bit Firefox, assuming you do not need any legacy plugins (regular Firefox 53 64-bit only allows Flash; Extended Validation Release Firefox 52 64-bit only allows Flash and Silverlight).
I realized my screenshot was missing a column. it's probably clearer in the Resource Monitor (Windows 7 screenshot attached). Windows shows Firefox using more virtual memory ("committed") than physical memory. Virtual memory is the physical memory plus the "page file" used to swap out shareable regions of physical memory. That's all I know, time to run it past a Windows expert to see whether they spot anything abnormal.
Scribe said
Hi, sorry you haven't had a reply before, maybe because this might not be a Firefox issue. Does this ONLY happen when using Firefox - does it occur if you use a different browser? If this is only a Firefox issue: You seem to have 3 versions of CFCA CryptoKit 3.0 for Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera - Add-ons Manager (Ctrl+Shift+A) > Plugins, which isn't a plugin I recognize, and multiple versions may cause problems, so perhaps you should uninstall the old ones from your PC, or at least disable any others that you don't use in the FF Add-ons Manager. If this is a Windows issue as it seems to be, I suggest you ask in a specialist forum such as https://www.tenforums.com/
Only FIrefox has this problem, so I raised the issue here. All CFCA related add-on is from Internet banking, anyway all CFCA plug-in is disabled now to see how.
jscher2000 said
I realized my screenshot was missing a column. it's probably clearer in the Resource Monitor (Windows 7 screenshot attached). Windows shows Firefox using more virtual memory ("committed") than physical memory. Virtual memory is the physical memory plus the "page file" used to swap out shareable regions of physical memory. That's all I know, time to run it past a Windows expert to see whether they spot anything abnormal.
thanks, I will use this method to monitor the memory.