Internet clients each take up 100+ MB RAM

[Maniacal]

Chrome uses separate processes for each tab. You can find better statistics in the browser itself (I forget where, tools or something).

I only had one tab open though :/

 

[Soronery]

1. Content on Webpages need to be loaded somewhere (your RAM)
2. Firefox has memory leak issues which cause it to use 1 GB+ of RAM if left unclosed and used for awhile.

 

[Zelig]

2. Firefox has memory leak issues which cause it to use 1 GB+ of RAM if left unclosed and used for awhile.

No worse than any other browsers.

My copy of Firefox is currently taking 800MB after being open for 2 weeks. Chrome and Safari are sitting at similar amounts after being open the same length.

 

[Narz]

Might be spyware. My Firefox used to use over 1,000,000K, now it's less than 500,000K after I got a bunch of crap (including two different versions of Rootkit supposedly) removed.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

1. Content on Webpages need to be loaded somewhere (your RAM)
2. Firefox has memory leak issues which cause it to use 1 GB+ of RAM if left unclosed and used for awhile.

I thought the memory leak issues were resolved a long time ago