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by shpeedy 2347 days ago
Firefox eats memory. 4GB of memory is barely enough to run browser and show few tabs.
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corford 2347 days ago
I have two FF windows open with a total of ~300 tabs and its currently consuming 2.1GB (Windows 10).
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TheGrassyKnoll 2347 days ago
Using Nightly on Linux (Bunsen Helium), 360 tabs, using 1.5 GB, but that will grow if I fire up dormant tabs. Starts going out to swap if I run it too long, then I kill it and update Nightly.
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cosmodisk 2347 days ago
And this was one of the reasons I switched to Chrome many years ago.
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Axsuul 2347 days ago
Doesn't Chrome have similar memory bloat?
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zozbot234 2347 days ago
No issues here on Linux. The latest ESR major release has even improved memory use slightly compared to the previous version.
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big_chungus 2347 days ago
On the windows box I'm currently typing, Firefox is eating less than two gigabytes with over seventy-five open tabs.
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modo_mario 2347 days ago
Chrome eats way more across the board in my experience
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