Re: Firefox eating memory

Ian wrote:

My laptop started running rather slowly today. A quick shufty
indicated that firefox-bin was using 380MB (out of 512MB) of physical
memory and a further 175MB of virtual. That was for one window with
two tabs. Closing firefox did nothing, mainly because firefox-bin was
stil running and had to be killed manually.

Is this normal behaviour? Ubuntu 6.06, Firefox 1.5.0.12

I've noticed with every version of Firefox I've used, going back to the
original betas, that it seems to have an appetite for memory. I dunno
if it's a leak as such, or wether it's continually caching stuff.

In practice, although I like to keep several tabs open for sites I
frequently visit, I need to shut down and restart every week or so.

Incidentally, my pet hate in the latest FF - 2.0.0.4 - the individual
close tab buttons on each tab. Far to easy to click by accident.
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