Why does firefox take 50% of memory when not running?

[Michael Torres]

I have discovered that there is a fire fox process that sometimes fails to
stop when the program is closed.    Just kill it.
On Jul 5, 2014 8:31 AM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

> Why does firefox take 50% of my system's memory
> when it is not even running?
>
> http://www.upquick.com/temp/firefoxmemory.jpg
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