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As someone on a desktop with 64GB, firefox still manages to slowly rise in usage up to around 40% of RAM, occasionally causing oom issues.
by wardedVibe 4y ago
As someone on a desktop with 64GB, firefox still manages to slowly rise in usage up to around 40% of RAM, occasionally causing oom issues.
- radlad 4y agoI wonder if you have a runaway extension... I haven't seen this type of issue from Firefox in a while.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoFF using 1GB here, after several hours. You must have a leak somewhere.
- detaro 4y agoHow many windows/tabs is a much more relevant question in my experience.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoFF doesn't load old tabs so you can't just count them if they've been carried over since a restart.
- detaro 4y agotrue, active tabs matters, but people that have hundreds of tabs open but only rarely open new ones or touch old ones are probably also quite rare.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoI open and close one or two times per day. Might have a dozen+ open at once, not a huge number.
- zargon 4y agoI usually have 800 to 1000 tabs open and Firefox only uses a few GB.
- bentcorner 4y agoI also have 64GB on my home PC and Firefox tends to get into bad states where it uses up a lot of RAM/CPU too. Restarting it usually fixes things (with saved tabs so I don't lose too much state). But outside of bugs I can see why we're not at 100GB - even with a PopOS VM soaking up 8GB and running Firefox for at least a day or two with maybe 30 tabs, I'm only at 21GB used. Most of that is Firefox and Edge.
- wardedVibe 4y agoyeah, its definitely a cache/extension thing; usually when it gets near the edge I also restart. I do wish there were a way to set a max cache size for firefox.