Heh, that's far from my experience. I've got 80 tabs open, many terminals, thunderbird (with several large inboxes) and my system has 32GB ram, only 9.4G is us

Heh, that's far from my experience. I've got 80 tabs open, many terminals, thunderbird (with several large inboxes) and my system has 32GB ram, only 9.4G is used. Maybe you mean 1GB of virtual memory (mostly shared libraries) and which are shared across all tab.