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   From: rcpj@panix.com (Pierre Jelenc)   
      
      
   FireFox (3.6.13 and several prior versions, as well as 3.5.xx) seems to    
   devour memory: some 300-500 MB just to load, on a blank page! After    
   loading a couple of MySpace pages (it's about the only thing I do with FF,    
   as SeaMonkey has great difficulties with them) I am down to no memory, a    
   freeze, and usually a mangled .INI that must be restored from backup.    
   Curiously, there is no crash reported in popuplog.os2.   
      
   I start FF with a routine batch file:   
   set LIBPATHSTRICT=T   
   set BEGINLIBPATH=E:\Utilities\Net\firefox-3_6_13   
   E:   
   cd E:\Utilities\Net\firefox-3_6_13   
   firefox.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9   
      
   Is that huge memory demand normal? By comparison SeaMonkey, which does a    
   lot more things, takes up about 100 MB at startup, and gobbles additional    
   chunks much more slowly: an SM-only session can last up to 3 days before I    
   run out of memory, while a FF-only or FF + SM one lasts an hour or two at    
   most.   
      
   Pierre   
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