I've got an Asus EEEpc with 2GB of RAM and 4GB swap and I always have Firefox open with 80+ tabs in 4+ windows. After a week or so it'll get really slow when loading and would crash in a day or two if usage continued, so I just kill it and it reloads everything.
This "more than a few tabs" or "more than an hour or two" is craziness? What is your friend running?
This "more than a few tabs" or "more than an hour or two" is craziness? What is your friend running?