[Discuss] firefox 4 is a memory hog

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

On 06/02/2011 10:28 AM, Kyle Leslie wrote:
> You could try Memory Fox.  Its an addon for Firefox.  I have had decent
> success with it.
>  
> HowToGeek.com had an interesting article on Firefox and its memory usage
> on windows systems.
> http://www.howtogeek.com/62301/htg-explains-do-firefox-memory-cleaners-actually-work/
>  
> Perhaps you could have the same success.

I'm confused: you recommend this addon, then point me to an article that
goes in great detail about how this addon does nothing useful at best,
and at worst makes the system even slower.  For those that don't bother
with the article, here's the punchline:
> Since we have shown that memory cleaning add-ons do not really do 
> anything useful, what can you do about the large amount of memory 
> Firefox uses? Here are a few suggestions:
>     Remove add-ons you don?t need (especially any memory cleaning ones).
>     Keep the number of tabs you have open to a minimum.
>     Periodically close Firefox and relaunch it.
>     Add more memory to your system.
>     Don?t worry about it.