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shpeedy | 6 years ago

Firefox eats memory. 4GB of memory is barely enough to run browser and show few tabs.

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corford|6 years ago

I have two FF windows open with a total of ~300 tabs and its currently consuming 2.1GB (Windows 10).

TheGrassyKnoll|6 years 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.

cosmodisk|6 years ago

And this was one of the reasons I switched to Chrome many years ago.

Axsuul|6 years ago

Doesn't Chrome have similar memory bloat?

zozbot234|6 years ago

No issues here on Linux. The latest ESR major release has even improved memory use slightly compared to the previous version.

big_chungus|6 years ago

On the windows box I'm currently typing, Firefox is eating less than two gigabytes with over seventy-five open tabs.

modo_mario|6 years ago

Chrome eats way more across the board in my experience