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Firefox use 100% RAM (32 RAM - 128 GB RAM) not matter always FULL (Total Memory Leak)

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nnina084
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Firefox uses all RAM, all RAM + High CPU (I have 20 GB and it showed 17 GB RAM usage and crash) always when using Facebook Page (e.g. several hours of using Facebook).

Firefox uses all RAM, all RAM + High CPU (I have 20 GB and it showed 17 GB RAM usage and crash) always when using Facebook Page (e.g. several hours of using Facebook).
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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Facebook has a pattern of loading new content into the same tab endlessly, which Firefox tries to retain in memory. Probably it shouldn't, but I don't think there is a way to unload content you already viewed until you either close the tab or navigate it to a different page. Hopefully someone else has a suggestion.

nnina084
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But what uses 10 GB of RAM? Facebook uses 17 GB RAM, which group or profile uses 10 GB RAM? Even if I close Facebook, the usage is still 100%, it doesn't release memory! Memory is not released, it accumulates garbage in memory! Memory leak is endless. I can have 100 GB of RAM and it will always grow to 100%. Endless garbage collection in memory. Will there be an eternal memory leak?

When i play, for example, any video on Facebook, sometimes an error occurred on Facebbok, and the memory increased to 100% RAM and 100% cpu and the information that the virtual memory 100 GB (pagefile.sys) was exhausted.

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