Firefox Memory issues in 8.10

[ezinar scrooge]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I thought that Ubuntu would solve all of my windows problems, like how Firefox eats up 400+ MB of memory and then refuses to release it. I guess even in Ubuntu Firefox still stinks.. It really needs to do a better job of handling persistent usage.... I'm sorry but I don't want to restart my computer every time I'm done using the internet.. If firefox can't release memory, godspeed to google chrome on ubuntu.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686

[Chris Crisafulli (itnet7)]

Thanks for submitting the bug report and helping to make ubuntu better, it seems as though this is an issue that Mozilla is aware of and is working on improving. I am marking this bug a duplicate so that it gets addressed along with other similar bugs, in a more timely manner. Thanks for contributing this bug.

[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

My firefox usually has about 130MB memory, that's all. If you don't like Firefox, maybe you should try www.opera.com.