Firefox may not have a leak, but it sure does love RAM!
I don’t know about any of you out there, but when I signed on as an avid Firefox supporter I haven’t had any reason to look back for several years now. One thing I have noticed though is that with each new Firefox release the memory (RAM) usage seems to keep increasing. At first I simply assumed it was because I was beating my poor browser to death with all the different tabs and plug-ins I use all at once.
Since my laptop came with 3 GB (yes I know that isn’t much anymore) it never really hurt anything else and I could still run my full Adobe suite, Outlook Express, iTunes, and McAfee AV program (another RAM hog) without much problem. Sure there would be some lag here and there, processor performance would peak for a few seconds when switching windows, but for the most part this little HP laptop has been an unstoppable beast. The problem seemed to come around when I finally upgraded to Firefox 3.6. » Read the Rest