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>Now, its not unusual for me to see 5+GB pinned across assorted firefox processes. I've been using Firefox continuously since version 3.1 and it's been botheri
by puzzlingcaptcha 8y ago
>Now, its not unusual for me to see 5+GB pinned across assorted firefox processes.
I've been using Firefox continuously since version 3.1 and it's been bothering me a lot recently. Circa 2011 Firefox was perceived as a memory hog, and MemShrink effort was started to keep it under control, which resulted in the nifty areweslimyet.com website (which was transparent and good PR too).
Now MemShrink seems defunct, areweslimyet is obsoleted with seemingly all the progress undone as of last update in 2017, and the new Perfherder website is inscrutable for an outsider.
In my case, Firefox balloons to gigabytes of RAM with just a few tabs open. If you need more than 8GB of RAM on your system to do basic office work something has gone rather wrong (and RAM prices are historically somewhat high right now).