From: "Frank Haber" 

1. I could say, "Don't obsess," but you know how much good that would do.

2. There have been memory leaks galore in FF.  You could let the sliver run
and see whether its footprint grows.

3. It may just be a "fast launch" component.  Notice how FF is
MUCH slower to start the first time than IE?  That's because IE cheats, and
loads stuff at boot.  After the first use, I think FF cheats, too.  You may
want that little slice of EXE/DLL to stay there.

4. Don't close your browser so much. (I do that, too.  I still use Windows
as a task switcher some of the time; 1-2G of RAM haven't stopped me.  It'll
take a bigger wooden mallet than that, I guess, to completely crush the
habit.)

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