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Thunderbird uses a ridiculous amount of memory (1 gb or so).

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I thought its high memory usage was due to it downloading a large volume of email from gmail, but even after it was done downloading all my messages, Thunderbird continued using 900mb-1gb of memory. What's up with that?

I thought its high memory usage was due to it downloading a large volume of email from gmail, but even after it was done downloading all my messages, Thunderbird continued using 900mb-1gb of memory. What's up with that?

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Wayne Mery
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Please post results of reviewing https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Memory_Usage_Problems

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Did you get it sorted out?