could be you are seeing http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75641
possible cause was tracked down late in 0.9 but no fix is available yet..
nisheeth?
S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
>I just tried Mozilla 0.9 for Redhat Linux 7, great improvement! Especially
>since it is not poping a modal message for every object it failled to
>load.
>
>But the memory footprint grows so fast! In one hour (30-40 pages loaded)
>it grows from 22MB to 60MB, and make my machine (Linux RH7 with 64MB
>memory) to a crawl, practically useless! Netscape 4.7 in about same
>condition grows from 11MB to 19MB, much more manageable.
>
>Is this memory leak? I'll say it is a big problem!
>
