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KillDash9 programming.dev  calango@programming.dev Joined: 2026-01-27 |
I was using 3 Firefox browser tabs and it just decided to use 4 gigabytes of memory |
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infeeeee lemmy.zip infeeeee@lemmy.zip Joined: 2025-06-05 |
In firefox you can see which pages and addons use the memory on the |
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KillDash9 programming.dev calango@programming.dev Joined: 2026-01-27 |
In firefox you can see which pages and addons use the memory on the about:processes page, shortcut is shift+esc.
thanks friend. |
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infeeeee lemmy.zip infeeeee@lemmy.zip Joined: 2025-06-05 |
thanks friend.
What was the culprit? Also this is a kind of joke/meme community on IT topics, questions like these should go to !techsupport@lemmy.world Except if it's your gentoo box running on live rat brain, and your problem is why it uses 3 bytes more than it should. For questions like that this is the correct community. |
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MonkderVierte lemmy.zip MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip Joined: 2025-05-30 |
In firefox you can see which pages and addons use the memory on the about:processes page, shortcut is shift+esc.
See? Webbrowsers are now their own operating systems. |
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remon ani.social remon@ani.social Joined: 2024-09-25 |
Rookie numbers! |
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KillDash9 programming.dev calango@programming.dev Joined: 2026-01-27 |
What was the culprit? Also this is a kind of joke/meme community on IT topics, questions like these should go to !techsupport@lemmy.world Except if it's your gentoo box running on live rat brain, and your problem is why it uses 3 bytes more than it should. For questions like that this is the correct community.
sorry friend, lately browsers have been very heavy and I used Firefox because it is light, so now nothing is more meaningful |
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KillDash9 programming.dev calango@programming.dev Joined: 2026-01-27 |
Rookie numbers!
by caesar's beards, that's insane |
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chasteinsect programming.dev chasteinsect@programming.dev Joined: 2025-05-06 |
9 tabs 2 windows 8 extensions |
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thenextguy lemmy.world  thenextguy@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-09-28 |
It may only be reserving that memory, but not actually using it yet. |
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Scrubbles poptalk.scrubbles.tech  scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech Joined: 2023-06-02 |
I never understand why people upset about processes using ram. It's there to be used. If it's not being used then things are not being cached properly. Now, if there are other higher priority processes and the browser doesn't give back the tam, that's different. From your screenshot, why wouldn't you want it using the ram? Otherwise it'll cache to disk and you'll have a worse experience. |
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KillDash9 programming.dev calango@programming.dev Joined: 2026-01-27 |
I never understand why people upset about processes using ram. It's there to be used. If it's not being used then things are not being cached properly. Now, if there are other higher priority processes and the browser doesn't give back the tam, that's different. From your screenshot, why wouldn't you want it using the ram? Otherwise it'll cache to disk and you'll have a worse experience.
your argument seems right, you have a good point |
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Evil_Shrubbery thelemmy.club Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club Joined: 2025-08-15 |
You guys have RAM?? I just zram to my 20GB ATA HDD. (but current horrors aside - you are fine imho, FF can show you usage per page, and that's prob cache with no CPU usage, super dependant on what the opened pages are) |
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PokerChips programming.dev PokerChips@programming.dev Joined: 2023-06-12 |
Install tab suspender extension. Tabs will release memory after a set amount of time. |
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IpsumLauren lemmy.world IpsumLauren@lemmy.world Joined: 2025-02-06 |
Go to |
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irelephant kbin.earth  irelephant@kbin.earth Joined: 2025-09-15 |
Unused ram is wasted ram! I once had an empty konsole take 3gb of ram one time. |
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scttgard lemmy.world scttgard@lemmy.world Joined: 2025-03-20 |
Librewolf is using around 200mb of memory with 19 tabs open. What the hell is Firefox doing? |
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NotASharkInAManSuit lemmy.world NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world Joined: 2025-05-06 |
🎶 “He ain’t heavy, he’s my browser.” 🎶 |
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JetpackJackson feddit.org JetpackJackson@feddit.org Joined: 2024-07-01 |
Librewolf is using around 200mb of memory with 19 tabs open. What the hell is Firefox doing?
What's your config? Mine is 200 with no tabs open Edit: is it because I'm using the flatpak? |
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beeng discuss.tchncs.de beeng@discuss.tchncs.de Joined: 2023-07-23 |
JavaScript coding practices |
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lad programming.dev sukhmel@programming.dev Joined: 2023-07-03 |
by caesar's beards, that's insane
Depends on the total amount, they might have 16GB total then it is, they might have 128GB then not so much 😅 |
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Dejected Warp Core lemmy.world dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-11-13 |
In firefox you can see which pages and addons use the memory on the about:processes page, shortcut is shift+esc.
I just tried this. FML, Discord needs to go on a diet. |
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