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I love Firefox over Chrome in almost every single aspect....except, I cannot shake the feel it still leaks memory like crazy. Open several tabs, then a couple
by Ostrogodsky 5y ago
I love Firefox over Chrome in almost every single aspect....except, I cannot shake the feel it still leaks memory like crazy. Open several tabs, then a couple of youtube tabs (you know how people are), eventually the machine is slow as molasses, you close 50% of the tabs (including the youtube ones) and you get back like 10% of the memory, so you need to restart the browser. That gets old, fast.
- frenchyatwork 5y agoIIRC, Firefox doesn't always give back memory when the machine has free memory. If you start running other high memory processes, then Firefox might dump some memory. The reason for this is 1) there's not much point in freeing memory if it will be unused and 2) switching web pages is something browsers do a lot, and freeing and then reallocating large chunks of memory is a significant performance hit.
- Ostrogodsky 5y agoThat's fantastic in theory, not so much in practice. Visual studio code crawls into a halt and the only way to "get it back" it is restarting Firefox, even if it had just one tab opened.