I routinely come up with a figure between 350,000 and 400,000
and I don’t like to run more than 3 or 4 tabs at a time!

Running a webcam site wot starts up Java seems to build the figure significantly, but even without that, it still climbs and climbs.

Unless they/Ffox DO something about this, I’m on the hunt for a new browser, since Ffox severely cuts into the efficiency of my Skype(for starters!)

You can find the link just above the products and you can download it for free.

Engima runs faster than Firefox and you can easily run 32 tabs and not slow down the machine.

Neil – you’ve hit my thoughts bang on. I am convinced that Firefox has a memory issue and isn’t freeing up memory.

Ben D – I would say Opera is looking favourite.

Null – Glad to see you back. Macs are still Satan’s PC.

CMOT – I have only tried K-Melon in Linux so I am not sure how it runs in Windows. I will try to give it a shot over the weekend.

I see that firefox.exe is approximately 73,000 K. Total (when I add up all processes) is over 156000 K.

I noticed today, when I clicked on an email I shouldn’t have, and it tried to open a web page, that Firefox actually popped up a message that I was going to a suspect site. Not Outlook, or my virus checker, but Firefox. I never noticed that before. To do that, it must load something into memory, right?

You might want to give mozilla K-melon a shot, it is sort of like what Firefox was supposed to be, small and lightweight in terms of memory footprint.

I pretty much only use IE7 when running windows update, some of the add-ons like IE7pro give you some mouse gestures and ad-blocking make it more usable than IE6.

good luck.