Comment 20 for bug 177680

Sorry.
I've tried, but haven't been able to reproduce the error exactly as it was at the time. I no longer have the system that was affected, having long since replaced it with a newer one with a more recent video card and more memory.
The only thing I can confirm at the moment is that Firefox doesn't quite return to the same memory state when all tabs are closed, though it's not nearly as bad as it was when I originally posted this bug. I have suspicions (from further searches around the net) that this very last bit of memory that never seems to get returned is due to memory fragmentation, or such is my minimal understanding of the problem.
Nautilus still continues to grow with every thumbnail it displays. I'm not sure if the memory is ever reclaimed. I've got 8 times as much now, so I've not noticed any instabilities. I'll watch it over the next week and report back.