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Here's a screenshot so you can see how much memory my firefox 8 uses

 

 

i've had mine reporting 1.6GB of ram :(

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Glad to see you're back again from vacation :)

 

That's alot [img]<___base_url___>//public/style_emoticons/default/sad.png[/img] Under SL I get this:

 

maarten 28744 0.0 0.0 103228 872 pts/5 S+ 22:30 0:00 grep firefox

maarten 26127 1.5 2.1 901576 171892 ? Sl 20:01 2:14 /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/firefox

It's a cross-platform issue, by the looks of thinks. Firefox 8.0 on Mac OS X, after only moderate Google Reader usage, jumps in RAM. I've seen 1.5 GB or more, but even under regular usage can top 0.5 GB:

 

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