Comment 1 for bug 314424

Hi Wirawan,

I recently ran across a similar problem in Intrepid. If I left Firefox running, it would eventually consume all of my memory and cause lots of problems. I spent a considerable amount of investigating this, and I recently determined that it was actually caused by leaving Firefox open with Best Buy's website. This is likely to be the cause of the your problem as well as you listed bestbuy.com as one of the websites you had open when Firefox started gobbling up memory. Also, this doesn't appear to be an Ubuntu-specific problem. I was able to reproduce this with the Windows version of Firefox as well. Thus, I plan on reporting this apparent bug to Mozilla.

Scott