When did FF become such a hog?

If I am reading that correctly, that is about 150Megs.
4 tabs, and no video or anything, just html pages.
The OS is running in 75. What is up with that?

Using many extensions? Webpages with Java applets or Flash, stuff like that?

I don't allow Java on my machines.

I did not see any .swf files.

The browser had been open for a long time, you can see that. Maybe some memory leak or something, I dunno.

It should not have been that big even if I were playing 2 movies at the same time.

That's strange, not sure then. I checked my data for Firefox, and with 2 hours of CPU time and about 18 tabs open (yeah, I know...) and a fairly intensive Flash app running, it's only at about 93mb.

But..but, I thought Firefox was handed down from God.

But..but, I thought Firefox was handed down from God.Don't be silly! What would Tunare want with a computer program?

It's got to be one of the extensions. FF on my home machines run the same way - 8 tabs and FF easily eats up 200+ mb of RAM. Unfortunately it may be Adblock, because that's really the only extension I ever have running :(

You can also usually kill Java if you kill the Java task that runs in the background - the VM will launch on a per-applet basis instead of trying to stay in resident memory.

yeah... the one downfall of Firefox lately =(

Firefox usually runs under 35mb for me and I'm opening up tabs all the time. I've had over twenty going when visiting several forums at the same time.

i use a custom visual extension, might be eating up resources. ima try to set it back to default.

hehe, that's not unusual in Fx. :(

That's why I said earlier the only browser I would give *any* credit too as far as memory conservation is Opera. The only reason I stopped using Opera in the past was poor CSS and XSLT support. I think they've gotten them all fixed up, maybe I'll look into them again. The cost factor is moot. ;)

Although the lack of AdBlock might detour me from that...