I don't ever recall having this problem with IE 6. I'll look at Task Manager and Firefox will regularly be gobbling up over 400 megabytes. If you spend enough time browsing the web, and never close Firefox completely, you'll consume nearly a gigabyte of memory!īecause I often keep at least one browser window open for research or reminder purposes, this bites me a lot. What's going on? Well, according to my tests, Firefox never seems to release any of the memory it uses- until you close all instances of Firefox. That's over 900 megabytes of memory for a single, non-tabbed instance of Firefox. This screenshot was taken after a few days of regular Firefox usage. I've even grown to like it slightly more than IE6, mostly because it has a far richer add-on ecosystem.īut I have one serious problem with Firefox: