I have been using Firefox for about two years now and have been nothing but pleased with the experience and what have you. But lately, I've noticed that it consumes WAY more RAM than it used to. Today, for example, it was using over 140,000 K of my memory. In doing this, it makes it nearly impossible to multi task. Can anybody help me?

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Heck i can hit over 300,000 KB of memory usage with firefox , im not sure why it does this

does it happen when you have multiple tabs open? mine often starts off with one tab open at about 45,000 and when i open a few more it jumps to 65,000 or more, sometimes up to 80,000, depending on the size and content of the page. but i don't think i've seen mine get up that high before...

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Sometimes, but it can also be at it's worst when just sitting there with one tab open.

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I had a hard time replicating the use of 180,000 K, but I eventually got firefox to use up 245,676 K with 25 tabs open along with the bookmarks side bar, while using the Aero Fox theme. Mine normally idles at about 80,000 K, so something strange must be going on. I was thinking that maybe you might have too many addons, etc. running with it but I'm now thinking that your guess is as good as mine.

yeahh...my firefox seems to sap up my ram and cpupoer... and it always crashes for me too :/ I'm starting to hate firefox now...

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ive never had a ff crash

Firefox has had a long-term-usage memory leak. They have been addressing this, but like many other softwares, the manufacturers don't fully accept/acknowledge the reason this happens. But it is known. There was an article about it about 6 months ago, i'll see if i can find it.

ooh yes please if you could :]

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I think this was the one.
Hands on: A look at Firefox's memory issues

ahh thanks a lot!
I'll read that in a bit

... +1 Rep :]

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Well, firefox's "memory leak" is really a feature, precacheing. You can disable that, and it does use a lot less memory. Right now with 5 tabs open, it;s using 47Mb of RAM, and 55Mb of vRAM. Before, it could use like 150Mb instead, and I have seen it go to 750MB with one tag on someone's screenshot on a blog. Though I have seen firefox crash, even with precacheing off, and it does seem slow after it's open for a few hours (so I have to restart it). Though, Safari won't sign in to my site (unknown error), and IE runs too slow on 256MB of RAM, and opera doesn't have the alexa toolbar, so I'm stuck with firefox for now (and firefox has a nice extension system, though IE8 also has a nice one...).

Another FF article you may want to read. Mozilla claims to have been working towards the memory problem in the current pre-release browser.

First Look: Firefox 3 beta 4

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I'd take the memory intensiveness of Firefox instead of security issues and virus vulnerabilities in internet explorer.