Arthur van Dorp wrote:
I can't confirm this under x.org 6.8.2 with a firefox installation from mozilla.org. I've been running the latest three firefox versions non-stop with only restarting them upon a new release. This is with daily heavy surfing and sometimes hundreds of tabs open. The memory eating problem may or may not be extension related or it may be confined to certain combinations of hardware/drivers.
Indeed, I've only ever seen CPU hogging issues with the Flash plug-in.