mohamed yusuf wrote: > Thanks Andreas, > > I think you are right. The culprit appears to be > firefox browser which took about 180 meg of ram. I > don't know why ? > Anyway, I swiched to opera browser and it's ok now Maybe it's time to drop the profile and start a new one? Corrupted profiles used to screw me up all the time but it hasn't happened in quite some time. http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile --Ajay