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Firefox is a nice browser, especially with the various extensions.

However, it becomes a memory hog. Even sitting idle, it can lock a good chuck of RAM. I've had it hoard nearly 500 meg of RAM.

Firefox should find a way to fix that. It seems to be a problem that goes back several versions.

However, it becomes a memory hog. Even sitting idle, it can lock a good chuck of RAM. I've had it hoard nearly 500 meg of RAM.

Firefox is very zealous about holding memory to make your experience faster. For example, going through several pages on each of a lot of tabs can have Firefox caching a lot of pages in case you decide to hit the back/history button.

There are settings to make Firefox give up the cache and use virtual memory more, but I can't remember them now. Searching for Firefox on FR should pull up an article about it.