Whenever I close firefox, I usually have 2 or 3 tabs open and I close all of them at once. So the next time I open the browser, firefox asks whether I want to start a new session or restart an old one. It seems to think that closing all tabs at once is an exception. I want to disable this popup. Anybody know how to do it ?

Firefox caches recently view pages so if you decide to hit 'back', it won't have to fetch it again.

Across multiple tabs, it means that a lot of pages are being stored, leading to large amounts of memory being consumed. There is a way to turn it off, or at least to use less memory, but it's not easily accessible.

Here are a few tips that you can use to reduce Firefox memory usage:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Reducing_...usage_-_Firefox
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/20...in-firefox.html
http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives...x-memory-usage/

Personally, I don't/haven't used any of the above settings, and I've seen Firefox use 200+ MB.

If you're using an older version <2.0, you should upgrade, as a few of the more common memory leaks have been fixed.

Hope this helps.

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Originally posted by Gauss Is it normal for Firefox to have memory usage of approximately 100 MB?

It is, to me.

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i hate firefox. IE7 is great. clean simple interface but not too simple. also it doesnt have some crazy memory leak that pushes it way over 100mb! ive never had it run over 50mb with multiple tabs open and leaving it open for days at a time. also connections are faster.

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that seems excessive.

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel i hate firefox. IE7 is great. clean simple interface but not too simple. also it doesnt have some crazy memory leak that pushes it way over 100mb! ive never had it run over 50mb with multiple tabs open and leaving it open for days at a time. also connections are faster.

It is not a memory leak. FF caches history so pages load very fast. If you have 5 tabs open with a ton of browsing done in each of them... there is a LOT that is cached.

88mb for me .

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My IE6 is using 12mb right now. Thanks for reminding me why I don't use Firesloth.

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Originally posted by Arbiter My IE6 is using 12mb right now. Thanks for reminding me why I don't use Firesloth.

but IE6 is about as secure as Jennie's back alleyway.

Opera || Firefox > Netscape > IE

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Originally posted by Arbiter My IE6 is using 12mb right now. Thanks for reminding me why I don't use Firesloth.

IE6? Oh...

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Originally posted by Ian but IE6 is about as secure as Jennie's back alleyway.

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