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All right, I've noticed Firefox 1.5 eats my RAM like mad. Currently it's @81 MB! When I used 1.0, it was never above 35 MB, usually ~30 MB. Do you experience the same?
Depends on platform (It will *appear* to use more on Linux, than it appears to on Windows), plugins installed, and more. (Flash and Java will bloat your numbers an INCREDIBLE amount - disable them both for the win!)
After several hours open, with 5 tabs, and over 20 extensions, I'm at 60 mb on Windows.
Its a little high at the moment, but I've been abusing it.
81MB is tiny.. I recently had it up to 500MB.. it's a known issue in Firefox that it doesn't really release memory well.. it takes longer to get high memory usage now, but not much so over previous versions..