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Fire fox is hogging mem usage.

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fisherman8387
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Firefox is using a ton of memory it shows it is using between 300,000k and 700,000k under Mem usage in Windows Task Manager. Why is it hogging/leaking so much memory? Is this a known problem? I am up to date on everything. so can anybody help me fix this?

Firefox is using a ton of memory it shows it is using between 300,000k and 700,000k under Mem usage in Windows Task Manager. Why is it hogging/leaking so much memory? Is this a known problem? I am up to date on everything. so can anybody help me fix this?

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cor-el
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See https://support.mozilla.org/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram

fisherman8387
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I have done that not helpful. Any other ideas?

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Anybody else have any ideas? That link did not help FireFox is still hogging/leaking memory!

Thanks