Firefox/Thunderbird memory usage

[Orion Poplawski]

Since starting to run FC5Tx/Rawhide, it seems like Firefox and 
Thunderbird consume a lot more memory than they did on FC4.  I'm just 
starting to collect numbers so don't have much evidence yet, but was 
wondering if others felt the same.

Memory at startup (Virt/Res):

firefox - 113m/31m
thunderbird - 159m/51m

When I last closed them out of frustration (in competition with another 
process, so the Res numbers are probably lower than the real working set):

firefox - 370m/154m
thunderbird = 419m/81m

I do have a lot of email and look at large newsgroups (linux-kernel from 
gmane), but I don't remember having this experience on FC4.


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