I looked at firefox's memory usage...

[muse108dc]

and fainted at the sight. Now I have 4 gigs of ram so it isnt a huge issue, well I dont close it that often so it might be a medium sized issue. Appearantly at this moment in time Firefox is using a whopping 600MB of ram. Is that normal, I have quite a few windows open and quite a few tabs in each of those, but for a browser it seems high.

I was also wondering if Opera, or anouther browser was better at memory management, as I said this seems crazy high, no wonder when I use my laptop it gets bogged down.

[bojangles]

It depends how much each page needs to load. Ones with Java and Flash take much more resources.

[Nodscene]

I'm currently sitting at just over 200mb with 5 tabs open. I also tend to keep Firefox open for days on end. I've never had it cause any issues though.

[superspud9]

currently my firefox is at 194mb with over 10 tabs open and its been like this for a couple days now. 600mb sounds like a lot, what do you have open!?

from what i hear, chrome from google is supposedly lightweight but i still prefer firefox because im so used to it.

[Jake_HT]

266 mb with 23 tabs open...

Just close & save tabs, open again...

[omgwtf]

262 mb with 3 firefoxes open and 36 tabs..depends..

[CroSsFiRe2009]

600mb here with only 2gigs ram..its a hog but as jake said, save the session, restart ff if it really starts to bog down

[Agafaba]

Once I tried to see how much memory I could make firefox use at one time... Started when I didnt notice my cat was pressing the F1 key and I suddenly had a hundred tabs of firefox help.
I think it crashed completely at 3gb ish, I have a screenshot just before but I have to find it.

[dimre01]

FF memory usage has never been an issue for me. Even with 5-6 tabs open, the browser rarely goes above 100mb RAM usage.

[Generic User #2]

*sigh* extensions are freaking brutal with the memory usage...i'm pretty sure FF cold boots using more memmory than you guy lol