[pcglue]

Whenever I leave tabs open in FF, it'll consume 3GB+ of memory and slow my computer to a crawl. I do the same in Chrome and it'll consume maybe 2GB RAM and it's fine. I want to use FF and support Mozilla. In fact, I lived with FF and this type of behavior for years hoping it'll get better in the next update, but it never did. FF is just not usable for me anymore. I reluctantly switched to Chrome and haven't had issues.

[thebiss]

I wanted to support Firefox as well, and would still prefer to do nothing related to my job on a browser that may be sharing it all because some some click-through EULA gave it permission.

But I can't use it anymore, because it swaps.

My work laptop has only 8GB, soldered. One day I was shocked to find the NVME had only 50% useful life left. Digging further, FF memory demand was causing paging, on a drive that was so fast I wasn't really bothered by it. Who knows how long that had gone on....

Edge doesn't appear to do this.

[hypertele-Xii]

I don't understand how displaying some text and images eats gigabytes of memory anyway. Web browsers had that capability since Netscape and we barely had megabytes to spare. We have thousandfolds more memory now and have gained... what, exactly?