Right now I have two browsers open with a total of 80 tabs. (80 tabs) Firefox has 59 tabs open and google Chrome has 21. Beside these, I have Outlook express running, I have skype running, I have Avira Antiviral running, I have XSitePro Web building software running and also Serif Webplus Websoftware running.
Skype is famous for using too much memory while running on your computer.There is an application you can use to reduce skype memory usage to about a tenth of what it using now
Computer memory is nothing but a room if you will. Imagine all your possessions at home are in one small room and you need to look for something there.
With so many junk on the internet, when we do a search for something on google or yahoo, usually a whole shedload of junk comes up. Weeding through them is a pain especially with slower internet connection.