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I'm a hardcore Firefox user. Its been my browser of choice since it came out. I'm a true Mozillian to the heart. But it kills me that I can mostly keep one wind

I'm a hardcore Firefox user. Its been my browser of choice since it came out. I'm a true Mozillian to the heart. But it kills me that I can mostly keep one window open with less than 15 tabs on a Macbook that has 16GB of ram and a fast SSD. I currently have 9 tabs/1 window and its using up 3.13GB of memory. None of the tabs have heavy Javascript processes.

fabrice_d 10y ago
Do you have add-ons installed? You should really not get this memory usage on a clean installation. One way to see what's going on is to open a tab to `about:memory` and take a measure?
- asimuvPR 10y ago
  I only have uBlock origin. I ran the memory report and saved the results. Would you be interested in it? I could email it to you if thats OK.
  - fabrice_d 10y ago
    Sure! My email is in my profile.
dredmorbius 10y ago
I am becoming ever more convinced that tabbed browsing is a horrible kludge. The fact that tabbed browsing's inventor's said as much doesn't do much to dissuade me. Vastly better bookmarking or state management seem needed.
TheLML 10y ago
how? I currently have 118 tabs open and using a little under 450MB RAM.
- asimuvPR 10y ago
  I wish I knew. Luckily someone got in touch and we're working on figuring it out. Its probably an annoying corner case.