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Firefox hogs memory
Firefox was known to use up more memory than IE, especially if you opened a lot of tabs 
at the same time. But suddenly it now acting as a memory hog (at least on my computer) with the memory utilization going as high as 260MB with just 4 tabs open and funny thing is it does not go down if I close all but one tab. It acts like a runaway process and keeps on eating up memory and CPU till the time it becomes unusable. I then have to close the window and open a new session for my PC to be usable again.
Is this a vulnerability in Firefox that could be exploited I know not. I am not an expert in reading code and finding out bugs, but I know enough to identify a problem when I see one. I intend to submit this to the maintainers of Firefox after I do a little bit more research to ascertain that it is not a problem with my computer.
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It is now happening to me as well. The slowdown is severe when you are using old systems with only 128MB of RAM and slow hard drives. Since Windows shifts memory to the pagefile in the harddrive, moving from one open program to another drags by the minute as the system moves data from ram to hard drive.
that's so true. no offense but i like IE 7 now than firefox for ordinary browsing. i still use firefox to check if my devt site appears correctly & for credit card processing. but my fave is opera. minimize opera and you will notice that the memory usage goes down. both opera and firefox have good plug-ins.