[NBLUG/talk] Firefox seems to eat up memory

[linux at rohling.com]

I've noticed the same thing on all OSes, including Windows, Linux, and OS X.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:30:27AM -0400, Jack Smith wrote:
> I keep multiple tabs open on Firefox all of the time, switching back
> and forth and using them to check multiple sites.  Memory use slowly
> increases until after a week or so, I'm above 80%, at which point
> Firefox starts hanging.  If I close and restart Firefox I usually drop
> back down below 50% and everything is fine.  (This is why I suspect
> Firefox.)  If I ignore things until I'm above 90% I'll get to a point
> where everything starts locking up and I have to restart the machine.
> 
> This isn't a real problem, I just need to check things every so often,
> but I wonder if anyone else has run into anything similar?  I use
> Firefox 2.0.0.3
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.3)
> Gecko/20070417 Fedora/2.0.0.3-4.fc7
> 
> on Fedora 7, though the same thing happened with Fedora 6.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jack
> 
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