Hello, I mostly use Firefox or Mozilla for my web browsing purposes. Both programs are great and provide the user with a lot of choice for configuration and using features and extensions.
However, I have noticed that if I use Firefox for a long time, it tends to eat up a lot of memory. And I mean "a lot" of memory. Last night, almost all my 256MB of RAM was full. The only programs running (visible windows) were two terminals and Firefox(3 tabs). The desktop I'm using is KDE for Debian Sid (with daily apt-get). On checking with top, I saw firefox was using 126MB of memeory. On closing Firefox, it took approximately 3 minutes for the HDD to stop working hard(light kept on). The with only two terminals open the total memory usage was 100MB. After restarting Firefox and using it for about 5minutes(3 tabs), it was using 32MB of memory. And it has been running since then(about 14hrs). Now its again using 92MB. Similar behaviour has been seen with Mozilla, especially when viewing a page with several images. Is this is know issue with Mozilla and Firefox? Is this called memory leak? Is is solely related to Mozilla or does Debian has to do something with it? Thanks. ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]