On Wednesday 15 Jul 2009, Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/7/15 Victor Churchill <victorchurchill@???>:
> > Desktop machine: Ubuntu 8.10, Firefox 3.0.11. Firefox regularly
grows
> > to >1GB in virtual memory size and close to 1GB physical memory at
> > which point my (1GB) system starts thrashing and I usually need to
> > kill it and restart. FF version from Synaptic is
> > '3.0.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1' which is the up to date
> > version. It's not a huge Firefox session: 3 windows, 10 tabs. Even
> > after a fresh restart it shows 250MB resident, 750MB virtual.
>
> What plugins/add-ons/extensions do you have installed?
That would be my first question, the second would be were you using
sites that use Flash?
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