I use firefox browser 101 version on a latest build of Windows 10. Basically what happens here as far I noticed, firefox does not release ram its don't use. I been having RAM usage issues with this browser since years now. I now as ı writing this: I have a youtube video and tomshardware tab open, nothing else and a adblocker called ublock origin. My RAM use is this now: 720.98MB with only two tabs open and a addon. If ı open two youtube studio tabs, it reaches to almost 1,5GB and if I look like 10mins then it reaches to 2 and then 3GB ram usage. This is INSANE, I have 16GB total ram with a i7 CPU and a 6GB gpu memory. Things I tried:
-turn off/on hardware acceleration
-firefox fission is on by default
-refresh firefox
-clear startup cache
-deleted that .sq file from firefox directory
-completely removed firefox including from regedit which welcomed back me regardless
-updated NVIDIA gpu drivers with DDU in safe mode
-default mode of firefox without addons also uses same amount of ram with said tabs open
I been dealing with firefox ram problems for almost a decade now, I used it before Quantum update and way before. This NEVER got fixed and seems gets worse by each update. I do not want to switch that "highly popular" Google Chrome because I do love my humanity.
Is there anything left to try? I seen things on firefox reddit subforum that a mac user literally got out of memory error and crashed due to this specific problem. Why firefox never unloads and release unused memory? You may ask: "why do you afraid of this? 16GB is plenty" No it isn't, I cannot play RDR2 with firefox open at background. You may say "ram unused is wasted ram" I see that line so many times on Internet,
Please, any advice would be highly appreciated, I want to continue using firefox and this ruins my daily usage.
-turn off/on hardware acceleration
-firefox fission is on by default
-refresh firefox
-clear startup cache
-deleted that .sq file from firefox directory
-completely removed firefox including from regedit which welcomed back me regardless
-updated NVIDIA gpu drivers with DDU in safe mode
-default mode of firefox without addons also uses same amount of ram with said tabs open
I been dealing with firefox ram problems for almost a decade now, I used it before Quantum update and way before. This NEVER got fixed and seems gets worse by each update. I do not want to switch that "highly popular" Google Chrome because I do love my humanity.
Is there anything left to try? I seen things on firefox reddit subforum that a mac user literally got out of memory error and crashed due to this specific problem. Why firefox never unloads and release unused memory? You may ask: "why do you afraid of this? 16GB is plenty" No it isn't, I cannot play RDR2 with firefox open at background. You may say "ram unused is wasted ram" I see that line so many times on Internet,
Please, any advice would be highly appreciated, I want to continue using firefox and this ruins my daily usage.