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Why does Firfox eating my mac RAM while Safari not ? OSX 10.10

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nadhim
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the app uses 500MBs of ram while safari uses 40MBs but i love Firefox i dont want to uninstall it please fix the issue


Mac book Pro 2014 16 GB ram OS x 10.10 yosimite

the app uses 500MBs of ram while safari uses 40MBs but i love Firefox i dont want to uninstall it please fix the issue Mac book Pro 2014 16 GB ram OS x 10.10 yosimite

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What version of Firefox are you using? You can find this by going to Help > About. Any thing under 33 go ahead and update it.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/update-firefox-latest-version

Also check what extensions and plugins you have running as these can eat up RAM as well. Check out this article for further information on Firefox using RAM.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram

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cgtopher
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What version of Firefox are you using? You can find this by going to Help > About. Any thing under 33 go ahead and update it.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/update-firefox-latest-version

Also check what extensions and plugins you have running as these can eat up RAM as well. Check out this article for further information on Firefox using RAM.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram

nadhim
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Thank you for the replay the version is 33.0.1 and it's up to date. and i have only 3 extension for add-block and download manager. i will try to reinstall the App and remove all extensions and see