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I'm not the GP, and I don't necessarily have a solution for you, but I'm curious about your workflow. My 19-tab Firefox (with Gmail open) is consuming 1.2 GB,
by throw10920 5y ago
I'm not the GP, and I don't necessarily have a solution for you, but I'm curious about your workflow.
My 19-tab Firefox (with Gmail open) is consuming 1.2 GB, and my fully-loaded Spacemacs is ~250 MB. What's your memory consumption look like, and how many tabs do you usually have open?
Suggestions for reducing memory usage: check about:performance for high-memory tabs, use uBlock and NoScript to block large images and JavaScript from loading by default, set permissions.default.image to 2/3[1] if you have lots of image-heavy sites, I suppose?
You might just have to resign yourself to using a small number of tabs. Firefox doesn't give you a lot of knobs to tune memory usage with, and already is lighter on RAM than Chrome (at the expense of CPU/latency).
[1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Permissions.default.image http://kb.mozillazine.org/Permissions.default.image
- ploxiln 5y agoReducing the Firefox content process limit from the default 8 to perhaps 2 should help (assuming the default is the same on smaller systems, I guess I'm not sure it is ...)
- throw10920 5y agoPostscript: it would be really nice if Firefox allowed a "click-to-play, but for images" addon - but it seems like that's not possible, given that zero addons exist that implement it.
- geokon 5y agoI do tend to get carried away with tabs.. :) I'm also generally working in Clojure/CIDER which eats tons of memory. The JVM just doesn't give back memory easily. I need to see if maybe there is some JVM setting I can set that would help. I even have issues with this on my 8GB daily-use laptop Then you carelessly do something intensive, blow through your memory limit and the OOM-killer nukes your process