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Memory starts at 60k but climbs steadily until there is no more free ram.

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billindetroit
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Firefox 4.0 starts at 60k ram but continues to steadily increase the ram used, even when idle, until roughly 1/2 G (on a 1 G machine) is used. At that point it gets so slow as to be unusable. Moreover, when I try to close it and then re-open it, it claims that another copy is running already.

At present, after about 20 minutes, it is using 215 k. That seems a bit much for a browser with only one tab open. (Note: It was at 220k but I just closed one tab and got 5k back. Does it really take 5 k to hold a tab open?)

While I was typing the above, it jumped to 230,980 k in three jumps.

Houston, I think we have a memory issue.

Firefox 4.0 starts at 60k ram but continues to steadily increase the ram used, even when idle, until roughly 1/2 G (on a 1 G machine) is used. At that point it gets so slow as to be unusable. Moreover, when I try to close it and then re-open it, it claims that another copy is running already. At present, after about 20 minutes, it is using 215 k. That seems a bit much for a browser with only one tab open. (Note: It was at 220k but I just closed one tab and got 5k back. Does it really take 5 k to hold a tab open?) While I was typing the above, it jumped to 230,980 k in three jumps. Houston, I think we have a memory issue.