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Why is Firefox eating up all my memory, and how can I stop it?

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Mar 15, 202611811 views
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I can have just one Firefox instance open, open to a site like Google or Stack Overflow, and see it consuming over 600,000 KB of memory. This seems excessive. Is something fishy going on here? Is there something I can do to keep it from doing this?

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Try it also: http://www.our-picks.com/archives/2007/02/06/firefox-can-be-faster-4-easy-tricks/ 1- Fetch only pages that you click Firefox mostly resembles to Google from this point of view. It has a built-in feature (enabled by default) that will pr…

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