A little while back I wrote how I was getting annoyed by Firefox more and more. So last weekend I talked some computer stuff with some friends and I mentioned the “Firefox eats my RAM”-problem. I one of my friends told me the old story of how this was a feature.I explained it was a bug, because with no tabs open, so no need to conserve history, it still ate a lot of memory.

Today I was viewing a lot of photos and Firefox and ofcourse this used up a lot of RAM. So I closed all the tabs, but still the RAM is lost. And now I made a screenshot of it:

Now some people may argue that it’s virtual memory or something. But I checked with Process Explorer. And it’s around 200MB of private bytes and a working set of 210MB. No tabs open or anything. How is this a feature?

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