FireFox taking loads of ram resources

In my server machine, firefox can take up to 170k ram resources while Jboss , sometimes, needs less than that. I use tabs but no more than 3.
Is this normal ?

Thanks

 

Yeah. Firefox has some memory leakage issues from time to time. It's a good idea to close and reopen Firefox every once in a while rather than leaving it open for hours.

 

They do claim that it's not a memory leak but a downside of their caching functionality. Whatever.

 

Yea i have also noticed this....i thought it was a memory leak as well..hmm

 

Does it have something to do with addons? yikes.

 

Opera Rules for me

 

i use FF now.i hate IE.the thread starter is saying he wont start no more than 3 tabs.then you should see this snap.this is just a typical one which i took yesterday for some purpose.my record is around 150 tabs...and of course it took lot of RAM.this case it almost took 350,000K+ or even more than that.

 

Go to tools and clear download history and cache. Please post back here and tell how it worked.

 

I don't think it's just the amount of tabs that are open. Often times I only have a few tabs open (Gmail, Google Reader and an AJAX interface for another website) and after a while my entire PC slows down because Firefox is using so much memory and CPU resources. So I'm not really sure if this can be attributed to a caching problem.

 

I've had this same problem. but i just close it every now and then and i added more ram so it doens't much matter.