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Firefox 3.6.6 leaks memory (present since 3.6.3 at least)

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Firefox memory usage grows continuosly. Becomes unresponsive after a week, or so.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== After installing 3.6.4

Firefox memory usage grows continuosly. Becomes unresponsive after a week, or so. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == After installing 3.6.4

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Tend to have 5-6 windows open at any time with 7-8 tabs in each. Used to consume about 600 mb at worst in the previous version of firefox I had. Now takes up up to 1400 Mb, the plugin container included.

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Forgot to mention, I have plugins: shockwave flash 10.1.53.64, quicktime 7.6.6.0, java 6.0.200.2 enabled.

Plugin container takes up around 300 MB while firefox accounts for the remaining amount.

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memory leakage overkill contrainer plugin