[Discuss] firefox 4 is a memory hog

[blu at nedharvey.com (Edward Ned Harvey)]

> From: discuss-bounces at blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at blu.org] On Behalf
> Of Matthew Gillen
> 
> I've noticed lately that when I unlock my gnome3 session after being
> gone for a while (several hours), it takes forever to get me back to a
> useable desktop.  I initially was blaming gnome-shell, but it appears
> the problem is actually firefox forcing the whole system into swap.
> 
> Firefox was using 60% of memory.  Killing it and reloading the same set
> of tabs makes it use 6.3% of memory (as reported by 'top').  I don't
> think it's a particular web page that is going screwy, because it
> happens at work and at home, and my set of tabs are completely different
> (okay, fine, I use google.com in both environments...)
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this kind of runaway memory usage?

60% of what?  1G?  4G?  8G?

FF is a memory hog.  So is everything else.  Upgrade memory.  4G if all you
do is web browsing and email.  8G or more if you run a myriad office
applications and a VM inside it too.