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Firefox becomes slow after a couple of weeks open (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago by TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Does anyone have this issue were firefox becomes slow if left open for a long time. In my case after a couple of weeks rendering becomes slow and when I use youtube for example if is laggy, just trying to change volume taka few second to show the volume bar. It also happens to my laptop at work. I have around 30 tabs open.

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[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Servo won't protect you against shitty websites gobbling up memory.

[–] TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It will still lower memory usage considerably, Firefox uses way more memory than Chrome. Memory optimization is horrible in Firefox.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

[citation needed]

[–] TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I test firefox vs edge in my pc, both with ublock origin. Firefox noticeably uses more ram than edge which uses same engine as chrome.

Here this person saw the same results as me: https://libreddit.bus-hit.me/r/firefox/comments/18gp19l/ram_usage_in_firefox_vs_edge

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Their methodology (and therefore likely yours aswell) is flawed and it was immediately pointed out in that thread too: https://libreddit.bus-hit.me/r/firefox/comments/18gp19l/ram_usage_in_firefox_vs_edge/kd2u2pq/?context=3#kd2u2pq

Measuring the memory "a process" actually "uses" is not trivial.