* Arthur Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Package: firefox > Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.6-3 > Severity: normal > > > After opening several tabs and loading several web pages, Firefox's > virtual size as shown in "top" increases to 250 MiB or so, and doesn't > decrease until it is restarted. Firefox becomes sluggish, particularly > with actions like "save link as".
It won't ever decrease, once memory is allocated to a process it is never reclaimed. It should stabilize though, does it? I have no idea why the save link as is slow, but that may have more to do with GTK then firefox. > Are there any user configurations that could help alleviate this > problem? Certainly using as few extensions and plugins as possible would help. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6
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