Firefox memory usage

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 13:51:43 -0300, Mario Lobo wrote:
>Has Firefox just become a major memory gobbler ?

If I run Firefox (on Linux) with extensions and themes disabled and just
one tab with the Google search engine opened, it's less resource
hungry. Try safe-mode and just open something like Google. Maybe an
add-on or a website is fishy.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pkill -9 firefox; free --mebi; firefox --safe-mode & sleep 20; free --mebi; firefox --version 
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7850        1655        1991          71        4203        6046
Swap:          2064         101        1963
[1] 184131
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7850        1934        1670         117        4245        5720
Swap:          2064         101        1963
Mozilla Firefox 82.0.2