Re: Why does Firefox use 47 MB of RAM?

Questioner wrote: 
I just did a "ps aux" on my Linux system and realized that
Firefox uses a massive 47 MB of RAM, and Thunderbird
uses an amazing 45 MB. I don't have a "hot rod" P4 computer
so perhaps this is all the more alarming to me, but
something seems to have gone wrong, I think. These are
programs that deal with piddling amounts of user data,
yet there so big!

And you're complaining ? :
http://asgaard.homelinux.org/top.txt

(So firefox and a lot of "modern" applications,GUI mostly,
are bloat - news at 11.)
.

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