I hate to say it, but everybody is LEAVING firefox already because of this. Closing it and restarting every hour got old. Even with the latest versions it does

I hate to say it, but everybody is LEAVING firefox already because of this. Closing it and restarting every hour got old. Even with the latest versions it does this. The fact that they keep claiming "it's a feature!!" is what made me the most angry. Firefox is now useless to me as a web browser, I use it only in limited cases for web development. Chrome has completely replaced it. "Oh but it's your add-ons." No, it's not. Even disabling my add-ons and starting with a new profile Firefox eventually consumes more and more memory. "Well that's what happens because it's saving history." Ok, force restart it. It will open all the same tabs, each with the same amount of history for that tab...5% of the memory usage of before restarting it. The thing is a bloated beast. I really do hope they fix it. I loved firefox when I used to use it, but it's not very useful to me as it is (firebug or not).