lemme ask you this: why did you purchase the memory in your computer if you dont like applications using it?

If its available, of course a program is going to use it, thats what its there for.

If its required by something else, e.g. a game, windows will throw un-neccessary stuff into the swap file. When you exit your game and go back into firefox, you will notice a 1 or 2 second pause, which is just windows re-loading everything back from the swap-file back into memory.

Dont worry about your memory. It has a perfectly capable memory manager. Just worry about the TSR (Terminate, Stay Resident) programs your using. These are sitting there waiting for you to press a certain key-stroke or whatever, doing nothing at all but wasting memory for 99% of the time.
jayfella Reviewed by jayfella on . Firefux issue.... too much memory Reinstalled my computer and downloaded FF off their site. now i just noticed its been lagging. taskmgr showed 600MB and now 300MB memory usage by FF. Ver: 3.6 anyone having issues? Rating: 5