Firefox is using 1 205 916KB of Memory ! August 31
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I really like Firefox as a web browser.
You can have several tabs, remove ads with useful extensions, etc…
But, if your run it for a long time (several weeks) and you have some tabs opened (around 30), it starts to “eat” a lot of memory.
Firefox (v1.5.0.6) is actually using 1 205 916KB of memory (click on the picture to enlarge it). And if you are closing some tabs, it does not help too much. You have to close the browser and start it again to clean up the memory.
I have this problem since version 1.5, I hope the Firefox team will fix this problem with version 2.0.
Julien,
this was a known problem as well in 1.0 versions in linux ! linked to the automatic refresh of sites. It was specially bad if you kept open Gmail for long time (weeks). It is strange that it happened to you only starting in version 1.5
this really sucks and it is incredible that it still happens …