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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 no
by 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 agoI never have any problems with Firefox having 80+ tabs open spread across 5 window.
- bscphil 5y agoHow much RAM do you have? How much RAM does Firefox use, e.g. after you've had it open for several days?
- m9731526 5y agoMy 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 agoI turn off my computer every day. RAM consumption after some time of usage isn't bad at all...