Is this a memory leak or by design? When using tab browsing, Mozilla consumes memory without releasing it again until the program is closed. The cache settings does not have any influence on this behavior. Fx my cache settings is 4096 KB memory cache and 5000 disk cache - but after running a small test Mozilla is using more than 250 MB of my memory.
An easy way to reproduce this is to make five local htm files with content like this: <html> <Title> Memory test </title> <head> <meta http-equiv='refresh' content='10'> </head> <frameset rows=1,*> <frame src=''> <frame src='http://www.wired.com'> </frameset> </html> Open the files in five different tab and see the memory disappear. One strange thing is, that if I load five pages that in total is 365 KB, then it seems that Mozilla in average is using 600 KB memory for each loading of the pages. -- Kim Ludvigsen
