Browser question

[Nosaj13]

I'm a new iphone user and have a basic question. I have sbsettings installed and the processes plugin. What i've noticed is that safari seems to always run in the background once opened. I understand that phone and mail should run in the background..but safari seems unnecesary. I know i can stop the process through sbsettings, buy that's a bit tedious to have to do that every time. Seems to be quite the memory hog when running unnecessarily. Is there a way to kill the process when safari is closed?

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

The only way I know of is to open Safari, then hold the home button down for five seconds or so to force quit the application.