why is my desktop sluggish?

[James Knott]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> Firefox is huge, lots of windows, but Resident Size is only 1.5GiB out of
> 6 GiB that the hardware has.  Nothing else is near that.

I have also noticed that if I leave Firefox or Seamonkey up for a few 
days, they will bog down the system.  The fix is to completely shut them 
down.
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