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Is it true that the more memory installed on the computer, the more memory firefox uses?

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Is it true that the more memory installed on the computer, the more memory firefox uses?

Is it true that the more memory installed on the computer, the more memory firefox uses?

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Well, the more memory you have available, Firefox could if it needed to use more (so you wont get out of memory errors when running Firefox). However, the act of adding RAM does not make Firefox use more, it simply increases the pool that Firefox (and your whole computer) can use.