I love Firefox, but I’m not too excited about what appears to be a memory leak in 1.5. I think this was a problem in the 1.0.x versions, but I don’t remember it being this bad. Hopefully it’ll be fixed at some point.

Firefox 1.5 Memory Leak
originally uploaded by bobafred.
proglem = problem when sober.
ah yes… drunk typing.
I see it a lot with the opening and closing of tabs, which is easily my favorite feature of Firefox.
I’m having problems connecting to websites. When I use Safari or IE, they open fine. New Firefox notsomuch. Grrr.
Cyanbane
Sunday, January 01, 2006 01:17:29 am
I have this exact same proglem. I have noticed a few things:
It happens a lot when I am on a ajax heavy site (maybe something related to all the xml pulls?)
I also get a insane leak when I try to open an pdf with Adobe directly from FF. best is to download to local and open it or use another pdf viewer. I have 2 gig of ram in my sys and I have seen it eat up to 1 and a half gigs before. (including virt mem also)