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With one blank tab open, using 487MB and 27 threads

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catmandont
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Usually have some tabs such as facebook, yahoo, and a couple of others open within one window. I always find that the memory bloats and bloats to almost a gig sometimes.

Even upon initial opening of Firefox, the Activity Monitor shows 26 or more threads.

Is this normal?

Usually have some tabs such as facebook, yahoo, and a couple of others open within one window. I always find that the memory bloats and bloats to almost a gig sometimes. Even upon initial opening of Firefox, the Activity Monitor shows 26 or more threads. Is this normal?

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Matt_G
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Hi catmandont,

Have you looked at the Knowledge Base article Firefox uses too much memory or CPU resources - How to fix or Firefox uses too much memory or CPU resources - How to fix? There is a lot of great information in there.

Hopefully this helps!