My system reports FF using 199m. I have two browser windows open, and a total of about 30 tabs. But no change in memory usage on it’s own. Now I have noticed that when I open up other windows and then close them down, they do not return memory, but no creep on its own as mentioned. Now that might be the difference between running in windows vs Linux. I’m running in the latter.
I ran an experiment ...
Close FF and reopen at 3:38 PM. Memory 89 MB.
I left FF untouched, and on a page that is static without automatic updates.
Here’s what I found:
Time Memory
3:38 89 MB
3:47 105 MB
4:08 166 MB
4:50 223 MB
5:25 271 MB
During this entire time, Firefox was on the same page, one tab open, no new pages launched, no changes on the page being viewed, etc. For most of the time, the computer was idle. I would think that the memory usage should not have changed during this time, let alone triple.
Jack