Thanks for that tip.

seems to work as advertised.

I wonder, though, if it will increase the memory usage of FF. That's what I have most problems with.

Anon, check your "about:config" for the line: config.trim_on_minimize

If it's not in there, do this;

Right Click in the page and New -> Boolean.
Enter config.trim_on_minimize
Select True
Restart Firefox.

Oh, ok. Don't know what that means, but I'm a-trying it!

Oh sorry

In the address bar in FF type "about:config" and hit enter. Scroll down and see if you have an entry called "config.trim_on_minimize"

If not, follow the rest of the above.

I tired this, Wolf, and I actually think that it made FF slower. It's really dragging since I made this change. Bizarre!

I tried Flock, its much faster, and I like the RSS reader there which is integrated solution.

I use both in parallel.