On Sun, 2025-02-09 at 22:33 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2025 at 21:18:31 -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > Firefox is using much memory and using swap memory: > > > > I have 8GB memory DDR3L 1600MHz > > What do you expect us to tell you? > > Web browsers are bloated monsters. If you aren't using any extensions > that might be leaking memory, then there is nothing you can do except > get more memory, or open fewer tabs, or avoid sites that use > Javascript > code that might be leaking memory. Or some combination of the above.
Ditto on the "open fewer tabs" with news being the offenders in my usage case. One's a fairly trustworthy local Atlanta station, and the other mixes decent leads with flat out click bait. Over time, I started noticing that my Firefox would overload when I opened too many tabs at the same time for those two alone. If I stay away from them, I can have thousands of tabs open for many hours with no problems. No, those tabs are not all being actively used at the same time, but a quick peek at cookies under Settings shows that parts of some of those pages (that I haven't loaded in months) are still phoning home. Cindy :) N.B. Yes, I know from bookmarks. They're ineffective for my particular brand of PTSD-packed cognitive issues. PS 32GB RAM, and it still locks up to the point that a hardware button reboot is necessary. That's up there in the inexcusable abuse range. More than a few times, I've gotten grouchy while wondering if some tab is mining for crypto or something. -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed! *
