In a memory leak, you’ll see the memory usage keep increasing the longer the program is open/in-use and this is exactly what happens with Firefox. It’s quite normal for Firefox to be sucking up over 250MB of memory right off the bat. Although Mozilla Firefox's memory usage improved a little over the last few years, it still uses a lot of memory a little more than I feel comfortable with.
With Firemin you can easily and dramatically optimize your Web Browser memory! One of the biggest “improvements” that Mozilla claims are the Firefox memory usage, in particular, the vanquishing of memory leaks.