Hi, all. I just updated to Firefox 9 and now whenever I start it up, it immediately uses up around 200 mb of RAM with one tab open. I've tried clearing history, cache, cookies. I've reinstalled different versions of the browser. I can't figure out what the reason for it is. Any opinions on whether this issue is related to Lion or just an issue with Firefox itself?
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Firefox using large amounts of RAM at startup
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There's nothing wrong. 200MB of RAM isn't out of line for a browser. Besides, you're not paging out at all and have plenty of available memory, so why worry about it? Mac OS X manages memory quite well, without the need for user involvement.