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shpeedy
on Jan 15, 2020
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Mozilla lays off 70
Firefox eats memory. 4GB of memory is barely enough to run browser and show few tabs.
corford
on Jan 16, 2020
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I have two FF windows open with a total of ~300 tabs and its currently consuming 2.1GB (Windows 10).
TheGrassyKnoll
on Jan 16, 2020
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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
on Jan 15, 2020
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And this was one of the reasons I switched to Chrome many years ago.
Axsuul
on Jan 15, 2020
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Doesn't Chrome have similar memory bloat?
zozbot234
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No issues here on Linux. The latest ESR major release has even improved memory use slightly compared to the previous version.
big_chungus
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On the windows box I'm currently typing, Firefox is eating less than two gigabytes with over seventy-five open tabs.
modo_mario
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Chrome eats way more across the board in my experience
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