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Why is Firefox 6.0.2 is using 3,000,000 kbytes of memory?

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Before Firefox 6, Firefox would never get even close to using 1 GB of memory. But now it is steady at around 2.8 to 3 GB. Is this a bug or is Firefox now just normally use this much memory?

Before Firefox 6, Firefox would never get even close to using 1 GB of memory. But now it is steady at around 2.8 to 3 GB. Is this a bug or is Firefox now just normally use this much memory?

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cor-el
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Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).