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Firefox is using hundreds of MBs of memory and causing my computer to run slowly

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Patrick Knowles
Patrick Knowles
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I only have a few tabs open at any one time, usually only one or two. I only have adblock plus and bitwarden as extensions. But when I open firefox desktop, even before I've navigated to any page, it is using a few hundred MB to almost a GB of memory.

I only have a few tabs open at any one time, usually only one or two. I only have adblock plus and bitwarden as extensions. But when I open firefox desktop, even before I've navigated to any page, it is using a few hundred MB to almost a GB of memory.

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Patrick Knowles
Patrick Knowles Question owner
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I have tried doing a Firefox refresh and restarting my computer. My firefox is up to date

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pds3601o
pds3601o
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Same here, Macbook air m1. Extremly laggy after opening 10 tabs.

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