That's okay. Firefox will take up to 80 megs of ram with a single window, single tab, doing nothing on a single page. Firefox has had this feature for a long time, whereas Opera and Mozilla which appeared to have this 'issue' fixed it a while ago as far as I know.
- Carroll Kong > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julian Hale > Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 2:22 AM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re: [H] -LO- Firefox stability issues? > > At 11:08 PM 12/22/2005, you wrote: > >I stand somewhat corrected in that after coming in from work tonight > >and having Firefox running all day it is now using 56,624k. > So it does > >eat memory albeit an insignificant amount in my case. Are > you sure you > >guys are using the latest version? @:D> > > I'm running 1.0.5, not 1.5.0, but it's taking up 109,192K of > physical memory, and 128,956K of virtual. That's 5 windows > open, and 37 different tabs. Still, with "only" 512mb of > memory, I'm left with 190,000K of physical memory free, so > it's not like it's bringing my system to it's knees. > > Julian >
