Firefox is being a memory hog - how to fix this?

Hello,
I believe this is the correct forum for this type of post.
With a few tabs open, my Firefox is eating over 450MB RAM. And, if I open more tabs, it quickly grows to 600+ MB.
This cannot go on. How can I make FF eat less RAM? I tried recompiling it with xulrunner-optimized from AUR, but it didn't help at all.
I have the extensions: 1-ClickWeather, Adblock Plus, DownThemAll, NoScript, StumbleUpon, Tab Mix Plus. I'm using 64-bit Arch.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.

Are you sure it is 600mb? The real usage is the RSS column when you do 'ps uxw'.
I found that Adblock Plus is pretty resource intensive. I replaced it with a custom /etc/hosts, and a userContent.css file in my firefox profile. iIt blocks about 80% of what Adblock Plus does while lowering memory usage.
userContent.css see: http://www.floppymoose.com/
hosts see: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

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