Firefox is a Memory Hog (150+mb)

Thanks for the replies! Guess we should have did more research prior to posting! It just looked high to us. Will check the plug-ins.

I'm running 26.0 at work and it's using about 111 mb - 180 mb or so, but I expect that less than 200 mb is decent considering the addins I run.

I have IE 8 on this machine and currently it's using anywhere from 64 - 98 mb.

Question: are you concerned about your memory usage? Memory isn't static, it fluctuates as you open and close applications. Windows 7 and Windows 8 are both much better at memory management than the old operating systems.

To me 150 megabytes is nothing. I'm currently using 3.27 gigabytes of memory with a lot of things open and my computer is still functioning fine.

Unless you have a total of 2 gigabytes of physical memory you should be ok.

I don't find 150mb to be a "hog" given the level of bloat in todays apps. Do you have plugins installed for firefox, like adobe reader, flash, etc.?

Under win7 here, firefox with 1 tab open (gmail) is at 176mb, chrome (various threads) at over 400mb and skype at 105mb.

Out of 32gb ram, I have 27gb "available" and 19gb "free"