After closing firefox, firefox still remains in memory with use of huge amount of memory

Hello,
I'm now using 10.0.1 but the behavior started around version 7.x i believe and it's becoming bigger witch every update?.
My configuration.
P4, 2.6 Ghz 512 MB memory, 120GB harddrive, Windows XP sp3 with all the updates.
While using firefox to explore the internet and using Scrapbook to save the pages that i want (Familytree search of our name in the past, present and..) firefox becomes terrible slow, hugh need of resources of swap memory up to 1,2 GB, i want to close firefox. After a 10 to 20 seconds firefox disappears from the screen but when i open (ctrl-alt-del) windows Taskmanager the process is still going on and often even needs more memory for several minutes (> 5) and i have to kill the process to go on. If i restart firefox after that it's treapears like the normal firefox but after a while the same thing happens again.
Sorry for the (perhaps) mistakes in my writing but englisch is not my native language.
Theo Smallenbroek

Some activities may use quite a bit of memory, and if memory is low on the sytem Firefox is forced to page and slow down. Does the problem occur only when you do certain tasks or use a particular site. Does it only occur while you use "Scrapbook" - whatever that is, and have you tried using Firefox in its [[safe mode]]
There is a posibility that the problem is malware related.
* see [[is my firefox problem a result of malware]]

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