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Old Aug 23, 2005 | 5:37 pm
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Originally Posted by maceyr
The only way to stop Firefox from taking up all the CPU is to close it and open it back up. Doing some tweaking with the About:Config doesn't change much except that it takes a bit longer before Firefox gets to over 100,000k. This is definitely some kind of a memory leak where the more tabs you open, the worse it gets. Closing the program and re-opening it starts it back to a lower level.
Do you mean memory instead of CPU?

I don't think it's a memory leak; minimizing the app seems to release most of the memory.
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