100% memory consumption in firefox

[NoOp]

On 10/03/2010 10:04 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> Firefox consumes 100% memory while watching following web pages
> https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#label/ubuntu+list/12b6bfd6bd7b8b81
> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ravel
> http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en&q=ravel
> above 3 are the only pages that were open on my system.
> 
> After reporting a problem in  a previous thread about 100% memory
> consumption in firefox I disabled most of the addons.
> 
> Harware
> Dell Inspiron 1440.
> Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit
> 
> Firefox 3.6.8

Upgrade to the current version of Firefox for your system & test:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox
3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

Where did you get 3.6.8?