If you shutdown and restart your computer daily, you probably never even noticed it, but if you leave your computer on 24/7 for weeks or months at a time, you'll certainly know what I'm talking about.
Sure, things are getting better - previous versions required closing/restarting several times a day; things you now need only do every couple of days or once a week.
For instance, today I found Firefox wasting over 500MB of memory - something not even my regular 20 open tabs could possibly justify, as proven by closing and restarting FF with the exact same 20 tabs, resulting in a "mere" 180MB use.
Now, the question is: is it FF? is it any rogue plugin leaking memory? (even though I try to use just "well behaved plugins")
That's why I love Chrome's Task Manager, that shows you exactly what tab/page/process/plugin is using what memory.
Until we have something similar on Firefox, I guess I'll have to keep closing/relaunching it every now and then.
Judging by how I see the Flash plugin behaving in Google Chrome, Flash is the guilty one. FF needs a task manager or "plugin manager". Someway to close or restart plugins without closing the browser.
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