Memory leakage in Firefox 4/Linux

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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Firefox 4 begins swapping pages to disk after just an hour of usage or less, slowing down the system (a modest: P4, 256MB memory). It seems like a common problem across all platforms. 3.6 was fine.

256 MB is not much memory these days.<br />
Can't you add more memory, so you have at least 512 MB or better 1 GB?
If Firefox uses too much memory and the OS start swapping then you can try to close and reopen Firefox to clear all used memory and start fresh again.

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does making objects equal null help the gc handle
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