Firefox needs too much memory

[Steve Flynn]

On 22 October 2011 13:20, Olivier Pavilla
<olivier.pavilla at linux-squad.com>wrote:

> I have ubuntu natty 64 bits. I have 4GB of RAM and swap 8GB.
> So I h ave trouble with memory. It seems Firefox takes too much memory.
> Look my "top"
> Eventhough I stop firefox and run it again. It takes much memory.
>

How many tabs do you have open?
What addons do you have installed?
Have you fired the app up with a fresh profile - does it make a difference?
Have you tried other browsers such as Opera, Chromium, Chrome and do any of
them exhibit the same memory requirements with the same pages and tabs open?



> --

Steve

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