Firefox RAM Usage
 

As my Firefox usage goes on, it gobbles up more and more MB of my RAM for seemingly no reason. I have 4GB of RAM, yet it gets to the point where Firefox starts visibly lagging in a periodic and frequent manner.

By the time it gets REALLY annoying, Task Manager usually says it's at 650,000-700,000KB. A quick reset of Firefox makes it go back to 100,000... But there's got to be a better way, even though Google tells me nothing.

My copy of Firefox is a standard 3.0 install, with automatic updates on, and I'm running it on Vista 64-bit. Here's a picture of my extensions:

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9763/90382857.jpg

I use no theme.

Help?

When you mention lagging periodically, do you mean at random or after a period of time after start up?

Also have you tried disabling all your extensions or running safe mode to see if there is any visible improvement? Sounds like a memory leak or just a resource hog somewhere.

Link may be useful!

After a period of time after start up, as I use Firefox, it takes up increasingly more RAM, and then starts locking up at regular intervals every 15ish seconds for about 1.5-2 seconds.

I have not tried disabling any extensions or safe mode, but will when I get home.

That link does look helpful!

which is really annoying
 

Is very useful! Just wanted to thank you because that explained some of the funky Firefox things that were happening to me that I never realized were problems. ¡Mucho gracias!

All browsers do this. The more tabs you open, the more resource hogging it gets. Any browser gets. Even if you close the tabs. When it gets too bloated, shut it down and reopen it.

Google's browser supposedly makes this problem go away! But they also big-brother-style watch everysinglethingyoudo.

Also, it's based on Safari. Which is rather not as good as the other browsers.

uhhhhhhhh Firefox or whatever google calls their browser?

Google's browser is called Chrome, and I think that's the one he's talking about (although I could very easily be wrong on that).