Firefox taking too much memory on Mac Pro

[ApplePowerPC]

Hello friends, i have problem with my firefox browser on mac. The problem is, when i start firefox and if i have many tabs open, it keeps on eating all the cpu my overall mac becomes slow. Firefox taking too much memory on Mac Pro and i cannot use any other software along with firefox.

[Patio]

Hey, I think you should have a look at these threads which are likely to help you :
Concept of Memory Hog in FireFox
Firefox memory leak
Reduce Firefox Memory Usage
Firefox 3 taking 25 seconds to start

[SmirnOFF]

You may use nice command. Nice is a program found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. nice directly maps to a kernel call of the same name. For a given process, it changes the priority in the kernel's scheduler. This will let you manage a processes cpu usage. As Mac has its kernel derived from unix, it will work on mac machines too. Also its a command line utility hence you will have to execute it from backend that is from terminal. Hope this is helpful.

[Rudra.J]

Yeah, nice command can do the work, also it is hard to use this command as it has to be operated from the back-end. You can download a front end utility for nice command known as Process Wizard. You can download it from here, install it and handle processes from graphical user interface. Also there are commands like tru64 which lets you manage class scheduling for your running applications. Try those too. If you have any problem then do post back. All the best!