[SLL] firefox using too much memory

[Benj Fredrick]

my "solution", to use the term loosely, is to use session saver and
restart FF. Even with the same exact tabs open, it will use much less
memory.

On 1/23/07, Jeremy C. Reed <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
> firefox continues to grow and use a lot of memory.
>
> I have only a few simple html (no flash, no javascript, no java) pages
> open and it is using over 100 MB. (One of the reasons, why I continue to
> use lynx and elinks.)
>
> I don't report version of firefox here as I have had this problem with
> many firefox versions.
>
> What do you all do to tame firefox? Any firefox setting for this?
>
> I guess I could use ulimit before starting firefox. Anyone doing that?
>
> On a related note, on another system that has Macromedia flash, my firefox
> gets to unbearable 1.2 GB making the Ubuntu system unusable. Anyone have
> good success with open source flash alternative plugin in firefox?
>
>   Jeremy C. Reed
>
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