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Receiving messages about high usage by Firefox. Is this on my computer or the network as a whole?

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While working in Firefox I have pop up messages that alert me to: High Memory Usage by Firefox. What does this mean and what am I to do when this message appears?

While working in Firefox I have pop up messages that alert me to: High Memory Usage by Firefox. What does this mean and what am I to do when this message appears?

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Do a malware check with some malware scan programs.
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of the database before doing a scan.

See also "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked and What to do when searches take you to the wrong search website

If you can't fix it with the above listed scanners then you need to ask advice on one of the forums that specialize in malware removal mentioned in the Popups_not_blocked article.


Your above posted system details show outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks that you should update.

  1. Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45

Update the Flash plugin to the latest version.