With one blank tab open, using 487MB and 27 threads

Usually have some tabs such as facebook, yahoo, and a couple of others open within one window. I always find that the memory bloats and bloats to almost a gig sometimes.
Even upon initial opening of Firefox, the Activity Monitor shows 26 or more threads.
Is this normal?

Hi catmandont,
Have you looked at the Knowledge Base article [[High memory usage]] or [[Firefox consumes a lot of CPU resources]]? There is a lot of great information in there.
Hopefully this helps!

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