Any chance you can upgrade to 3.5? They've improved the memory handling
quite a lot.
Even so, that does seem *rather* excessive!
2009/7/15 Victor Churchill <victorchurchill@???>
> Desktop machine: Ubuntu 8.10, Firefox 3.0.11. Firefox regularly grows
> to >1GB in virtual memory size and close to 1GB physical memory at
> which point my (1GB) system starts thrashing and I usually need to
> kill it and restart. FF version from Synaptic is
> '3.0.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1' which is the up to date
> version. It's not a huge Firefox session: 3 windows, 10 tabs. Even
> after a fresh restart it shows 250MB resident, 750MB virtual.
>
> Today a new development: used 'killall firefox' at shell prompt and my
> X session got killed. Twice.^H^H^H^H^H^HThrice.
> I say 'new' because I have not seen this before; but I don't usually
> use 'killall' so it may be something that was there all along.
>
> For comparison I am writing this from a laptop 8.04 WUBI installation
> (Ubuntu inside Windows), FF is occupying 148MB.
>
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