Firefox Takes Up Too Much RAM

I've tested this problem on multiple browsers (Opera, Firefox, Chrome and even IE), and Firefox is the only one I'm having problems with.
I only recently installed the 4b11 version of Firefox (After not using the browser for a while), and after an hour or so of using it, my computer was running unbearably slow. I opened the Task Manager to see the problem-- which I already suspected to be Firefox, and saw that it was taking over 800MB of my memory. I closed out of it, and used one of my other browsers without any speed problems.
Today, I decided to do some troubleshooting on it and saw that right when it opened, it was already taking 100+MB (I had three tabs opened). As soon as I opened a new tab, it shot up in an instant by 15MB. Open another tab, another 15MB.
I closed one of the tabs; I saw a VERY small decrease. I closed another tab. It actually INCREASED by 1MB.
Even now, as I'm using the browser, the usage is steadily increasing without me even doing anything except typing in this support form (which is currently my only tab open). By "steadily," I mean it's increasing by another 2-4MB every minute or so.
I can't speed it up without having to close out and restart it.
At the time I'm posting this, it will have been only a half hour (within this range) after starting the browser today and it is using over 350MB of memory.

You're not the only one. I have been trying to tell them for weeks the memory use is probably the reason people are saying it's slow. It's not unusual for the beta to blow up to 600mb or more, and if someone has an XP system with 'only' a gig of ram, it would kill the machine. ''MY ''thing is beta 12 (coming shortly) was supposed to be the Release Candidate. And they seem to be making no effort at all to address the memory issue. I have been using Firefox since like 2006, but I'll stop using it if they don't fix this.
Having said that, I hope they do. I really like FF 4.

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Start your Computer in safe mode with networking. See if there
is still a problem.
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'''Windows > Start > Control Panel > Uninstall Programs.'''
'''Mac: Open the "Applications" folder'''
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###UPDATED###
Well thank you guys for your patience ...
as you considered I forgot to mention the codec itself and other stuff ...
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Format                                   : MPEG-4
Format profile                          : Base Media
File size                                 : 8.55 MiB
Duration                                 : 34s 993ms
Overall bit rate mode                : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 2 050 Kbps
VideoFormat                            : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : [email protected]
Codec ID                                 : avc1
Codec ID/Info                            : Advanced Video Coding
Bit rate                                    : 1 927 Kbps
Width                                      : 1 920 pixels
Height                                     : 1 080 pixels
Frame rate mode                      : Constant
Frame rate                               : 30.000 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                 : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                  : 8 bits
Scan type                                 : Progressive
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