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

[joe at actionline.com]

Michael Torres last wrote:
> I have discovered that there is a fire fox process that sometimes
> fails to stop when the program is closed.    Just kill it.

Thanks Michael!!!  That was a very helpful suggestion.
I did use 'xkill' to kill it and that did seem to solve
the problem ... or at least tremendously improve performance.

Joe


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> On Jul 5, 2014 8:31 AM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
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>> Why does firefox take 50% of my system's memory
>> when it is not even running?