I use Firefox in many Linux and Windows boxes and I haven't had it eating up that much memory. Right now I'm at my workplace using XP and Firefox uses 34 megs of memory out of 512. Admittedly the browser fires up rather slowly, but otherwise I haven't had any major problems with it.
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I use Firefox in many Linux and Windows boxes and I haven't had it eating up that much memory. Right now I'm at my workplace using XP and Firefox uses 34 megs of memory out of 512. Admittedly the browser fires up rather slowly, but otherwise I haven't had any major problems with it.