On Nov 12, 2007 1:24 PM, Zach <<a href="mailto:netrek@gmail.com" target="_blank">netrek@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>> What do you consider an insane amount of physical ram?<br><br></div>I have 256MB and I've seen Firefox eat up 255MB.<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>Wow! The worst I've yet seen is here on my work PC, using nearly 180MB with multiple tabs open.
<br><br>Do you have any addon's installed? I've noticed some seem to eat up the memory. Also if a browser session<br>stays open for a long time (days on end) the memory usage begins to grow.<br><br>In fact, just now I looked at my work PC. I'm at 166MB and growing, and FF has been open since last Friday.
<br>Just to test, I restarted FF. With all the same exact tabs open, I'm down to 48MB.<br><br>FWIW: My work PC is running Win2k, and FF 2.0.<br><br><br></div></div>