Now I love Firefox, I've been using it forever, I'll show off a load of extensions to anyone who will let me, and have been a general evangelist to anyone I work with.  When it takes time to swap between tabs, or when swapping tabs or creating new tabs causes my entire system to be usable I start to have doubts.

I know there have been complaints about firefox's memory management.  I've had problems with pages full of images but I'm hoping that it's an extension that's eating 800M of memory.  Granted I've got twelve tabs open, but that's a fairly normal scenario for me.

My first guess is my gmail checker, I've upgraded from the normal version to one that can check multiple accounts because I've got google hosting mail for the Queue and NoVa Code Camp.

I'll start taking extensions off one by one, there are something that I absolutely can't live without; super drag & go anyone?  It might be easier to disable them all except the ones I can't live without and start adding them daily if I can watch Task Manager without seeing firefox's memory usage continually climb.

Anyone else had similar experiences?  I'm running 2.0.0.2 on 64bit XP.