Why does firefox take 50% of memory when not running?

2014-07-05 Thread joe
Why does firefox take 50% of my system's memory when it is not even running? http://www.upquick.com/temp/firefoxmemory.jpg --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: Why does firefox take 50% of memory when not running?

2014-07-05 Thread Lisa Kachold
Firefox has always been a memory hog: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28970933-FireFox-Firefox-is-STILL-a-Memory-HOG On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 8:31 AM, j...@actionline.com wrote: Why does firefox take 50% of my system's memory when it is not even running?

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Re: Why does firefox take 50% of memory when not running?

2014-07-05 Thread Michael Havens
I think firefox is one of those programs that once you start it it stays partially in memory to make it quicker to load. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: Firefox has always been a memory hog:

Re: Why does firefox take 50% of memory when not running?

2014-07-05 Thread Michael Torres
I have discovered that there is a fire fox process that sometimes fails to stop when the program is closed.Just kill it. On Jul 5, 2014 8:31 AM, j...@actionline.com wrote: Why does firefox take 50% of my system's memory when it is not even running?

Re: Why does firefox take 50% of memory when not running?

2014-07-05 Thread joe
Michael Torres last wrote: I have discovered that there is a fire fox process that sometimes fails to stop when the program is closed.Just kill it. Thanks Michael!!! That was a very helpful suggestion. I did use 'xkill' to kill it and that did seem to solve the problem ... or at least