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Tried that, eated up my entire RAM.

TakuYam 5y ago
How much RAM do you use? My wife’s 8gb and my 16gb Macs have never seen Firefox get especially RAM hungry
atoav 5y ago
Ah the myth. I currently have 100+ tabs open on my old android phone, which has less RAM than any computer sold in the last decade.
- traveler01 5y ago
  How's that the myth? I literally tried it, it always end up eating more RAM than Chromium dunno why.
  - atoav 5y ago
    What is the meassurable difference?
martijnvds 5y ago
And Chrome/Chromium didn't?
CodeGlitch 5y ago
Could be one of the extensions you installed?
bscphil 5y ago
A reasonable web browsing experience is no longer possible (on any browser) on machines with 8 GB of RAM or less. Horrific, but true. Either get more RAM, use something like Total Suspender to suspend inactive tabs to disk, or limit yourself to 10-15 tabs open at once (and fewer than that if you're using modern, heavy JS web applications).
- traveler01 5y ago
  Dunno man, I'm actually using it right now and with 4 tabs open it's using 1.3 gb of RAM. These websites aren't specially heavy either, none of them it's Facebook or another social network.
  - bscphil 5y ago
    My understanding is that the RAM per tab metric drops as you have more tabs. Firefox is more willing to cache stuff when you have only 4 tabs open, so that's not a great metric. Plus you have to consider the base RAM use of the browser itself. 1.3 GB isn't all that much on a modern system with 8 GB available, for example; the problem is more that Firefox doesn't handle 20+ tabs very well especially when you've got Twitter, Google Docs, Slack, etc open.
    - pepoluan 5y ago
      I never have any problems with Firefox having 80+ tabs open spread across 5 window.
      - bscphil 5y ago
        How much RAM do you have? How much RAM does Firefox use, e.g. after you've had it open for several days?
        m9731526 5y ago
        My recent experience of keeping 1000 tabs around and auto unloaded (managed by Sidebery, a vertical tab bar plugin), is that it usually occupies 3~5 GBs.
        traveler01 5y ago
        I turn off my computer every day. RAM consumption after some time of usage isn't bad at all...
  - known 5y ago

How much RAM do you use? My wife’s 8gb and my 16gb Macs have never seen Firefox get especially RAM hungry

Ah the myth. I currently have 100+ tabs open on my old android phone, which has less RAM than any computer sold in the last decade.

traveler01 5y ago
How's that the myth? I literally tried it, it always end up eating more RAM than Chromium dunno why.
- atoav 5y ago
  What is the meassurable difference?

martijnvds 5y ago

And Chrome/Chromium didn't?

CodeGlitch 5y ago

Could be one of the extensions you installed?

bscphil 5y ago

A reasonable web browsing experience is no longer possible (on any browser) on machines with 8 GB of RAM or less. Horrific, but true. Either get more RAM, use something like Total Suspender to suspend inactive tabs to disk, or limit yourself to 10-15 tabs open at once (and fewer than that if you're using modern, heavy JS web applications).

traveler01 5y ago
Dunno man, I'm actually using it right now and with 4 tabs open it's using 1.3 gb of RAM. These websites aren't specially heavy either, none of them it's Facebook or another social network.
- bscphil 5y ago
  My understanding is that the RAM per tab metric drops as you have more tabs. Firefox is more willing to cache stuff when you have only 4 tabs open, so that's not a great metric. Plus you have to consider the base RAM use of the browser itself. 1.3 GB isn't all that much on a modern system with 8 GB available, for example; the problem is more that Firefox doesn't handle 20+ tabs very well especially when you've got Twitter, Google Docs, Slack, etc open.
  - pepoluan 5y ago
    I never have any problems with Firefox having 80+ tabs open spread across 5 window.
    - bscphil 5y ago
      How much RAM do you have? How much RAM does Firefox use, e.g. after you've had it open for several days?
      - m9731526 5y ago
        My recent experience of keeping 1000 tabs around and auto unloaded (managed by Sidebery, a vertical tab bar plugin), is that it usually occupies 3~5 GBs.
      - traveler01 5y ago
        I turn off my computer every day. RAM consumption after some time of usage isn't bad at all...
- known 5y ago