Firefox is a PIG on memory

[Andrew Johnson]

I've also had this problem, it's evident with both Thunderbird and Firefox.

As a workaround the moment I'm using Opera as an alternative web browser
- It's grown to around 50 Mb in memory after 8 hours
of usage and I usually run between 5 and 8 tabs at any one time.   I'm
not as comfortable with the interface as I am with the Firefox one, but
the features are similar and the installation is simple.

- AJ



Marek Pawinski wrote:

> Matt Patterson wrote:
>
>> I have noticed that if I leave firefox open for a long time (week or
>> more) that the memory usage on my machine just steadily climbs (swap
>> and memory used). Even if there is only one firefox window open, the
>> instant I close that window I can watch my memory usage drop 300mb or
>> more. I like leaving many windows open (several per desktop with
>> several tabs each) because that is how I organize my various
>> parrallel tasks. A way to make firefox clean up after itself would be
>> great.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>
> Good at least i am not the only one having this problem, between
> mozilla and firefox you need a machine with a least a gig of memory.
>
>