What does FireFox have with memory and how to treat it?

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I waited for four because I got tired of how FF eats memory. When you open a lot of tabs, then after most of the closed ones, the amount of memory consumed does not decrease. In the fourth beta, it seems to have gotten better, but not completely. I'm doing this experiment:
1. I work with FF (I open/close a bunch of tabs)
2. I leave two tabs open, I see how much memory is eating (it was 210 mb)
3. I close FF and choose "save and exit"
4. I start it again, the same ones open tabs
5. I'm watching memory - 115 mb
What's wrong? It seems that there is either a memory leak or defragmentation.

Answer 1

This is fine. If you want fast internet, prepare your memory. For your convenience, visited pages are stored there and half a step ahead. You can, of course, limit it in about:config, but you need to prepare for the loss of speed.
It is better to spend $20 to buy a memory bar and forget about these problems.

Answer 2

Most likely a leak! I have the same.

Answer 3

This is why I switched to chrome. Many extensions are missing, but the situation with memory is a little better, although not globally, it also eats healthy, but it doesn’t leak, kmk.

Answer 4

I have Opera 800 meters eating)

Answer 5

Oh, and I solved the problem - I installed MemoryFox. Now the memory is much less consumed, it only slows down everything. Shit, all in all.

Answer 6

Write in config.sys
DOS=HIGH,UMB,NOAUTO
DEVICE=C:WINDOWSHIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=C:WINDOWSEMM386.EXE NOEMS
break=on
FILES=30
BUFFERS=30
country=007, 866, c:\dos \country.sys
stacks=9,256

Answer 7

habrahabr.ru/blogs/firefox/62707/
razi sho trim on mizimize set. no one else has any ideas.

Answer 8

There is a little hack for Windows (it can be used for any process) using PowerShell - by amirul

Answer 9

I just bought 8 GB of memory, all browsers eat memory, opera ff chrome, now I'm on chrome as it is the lightest, I recommend installing a flash blocker and ad blockers, I won't say that I have more than a hundred tabs open, but there is not enough memory on 50 tabs Really nobody, I think it is necessary to expand to 16GB.

Answer 10

Well, you can't insert up to 66 on an ordinary mother.
And where is the flash blocker, rummaged through the settings, found only turning off the flash plug-in, well, it has been there for a long time.
Damn, I worked on 32 mb, I launched memphrey which cleaned the memory, and when playing Warcraft I managed to listen to winamp with it. Then the third quake and contra flew on 128 MB of RAM.

Answer 11

FF is very greedy by nature.
Developers throw off everything on plugins - they made a separate process, but guess what? A day later, online, your FF will again eat the same 1.5 GB and won't work and be godlessly buggy. I even installed BarTab - the usability worsened to plus infinity, but FF still burned out 1.5 GB, turned off all extensions - it doesn’t help, the problem is clearly in FF. That's why I switched to Chrome. Now there are no such problems, there are all plugins as in FF + AdBlock. Session extension from FF is not needed, because Sessions in Chrome are native.

Answer 12

What does consuming memory mean? Did you see it in Task Manager? Are you sure that he is eating, and not reserving memory?
You can install an extension that amazingly reduces memory consumption in Firefox . Memory in Task Manager will be shown less, but the real consumption is unlikely to change.

Answer 13

Have you tried Firefox Builder Optimization ?
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Firefox Builder Optimization - thanks to this program, Windows users can no longer be afraid of the huge memory consumption of the Firefox browser. The program, based on the developments of Italian and French programmers + some improvements for stable operation, pacifies the appetite of a voracious browser up to 80%, depending on open pages.
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Answer 14

My FF in Ubuntu eats up 2 GB of memory with three open tabs. And I do almost nothing in it, it just stands open and slowly eats memory.