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Firefox has been getting progressively more memory hungry, indeed. At the moment my Firefox is at 314 MB with very few addons and 4 tabs open (none of the tabs have flash or dynamic stuff going on). I've seen it reach half a gig of memory easily, too.

I've heard that Firefox 4.0 is better though; will half to give it a shot soon.

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Mozilla often says 'wait until the next version, the next version will fix all this.' A few versions later and the problems are still many and I doubt that this legacy will change.

I remember when Firefox was the lightweight alternative to Mozilla. :\

Perhaps a new phoenix can rise from Firefox's hulk.

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