Why is Firefox such a memory hog?

RichardE

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Playing COD4 and its taking up currently 385Megs of memory, firefox with 6 tabs open, all anandtech and 1 gmail is taking up 245 :confused: Why?

Wrong forum.
bsobel

 

Cheesetogo

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Try closing it and reopening - when it's been open for a while, it seems to start taking up a huge amount of memory, regardless of how many tabs are actually currently open. Once I had something like 60 tabs opened, bringing total usage to something like 2GB. After closing mostly all of them, leaving me with about 3, it was still using 1.4GB.
 

Iron Woode

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I have 6 tabs open and I am using 77 megs.

My question would be: why isn't this posted in the correct forum?