FireFox eats memory. Is this the norm?

Question

Browsers

Hello! I will not paint a lot, everything is in the screenshot. But is this even possible??? Gig still understand, but not four and a half. There are only five tabs open.

Answer 1

Switch to Firefox Beta .
I don't recommend keeping tabs open. Now even bitcoin miners are found in the JS code of the site.
Some of the old add-ons will stop working, which will give an even greater increase in performance. Check out the main alternative add-ons here .

Answer 2

Tab Memory Usage - a useful plugin for FF - shows the memory they have eaten on tabs. It helps a lot to identify bad sites.

Answer 3

I set the number of processes in the performance settings = 5, it became normal,
and before that 6 GB ate