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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 11:05 am
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Seriously, I find that simply quitting and restarting firefox will do the trick. The memory/cpu hogging issue seems to me (though I'm not certain) to be related to plug-ins like Java, Flash, etc. Closing the browser also unloads the plug-ins and seems to put things back to normal.

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