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Firefox Quantum (FF57) is using all memory avaliable in the system making computer nearly frozen

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Firefox Quantum (FF57) using all memory available in the system making computer nearly frozen.

On some pages with a lot of images (mainly at blogs with many photographs) FF57 (64 bits) quickly allocates all memory available in the system (8GB) causing computer responding incredibly slow. It isn't accidental problem, it repeats always if I'm visiting some web pages. I didn't have such problems using the previous version of FF (FF56 64 bits).

The best example to see the problem is: 1. visit https://www.scoop.it/t/secondlife-fashion 2. scroll down the page allowing all images to load 3. go to page 2 scrolling down again 4. go to page 3 scrolling down again 5. and now return to the previous page (page 2) and try to scroll down - during this FF57 will suddenly allocate all memory (8GB) making computer nearly not responding. It happens each time.

Firefox Quantum (FF57) using all memory available in the system making computer nearly frozen. On some pages with a lot of images (mainly at blogs with many photographs) FF57 (64 bits) quickly allocates all memory available in the system (8GB) causing computer responding incredibly slow. It isn't accidental problem, it repeats always if I'm visiting some web pages. I didn't have such problems using the previous version of FF (FF56 64 bits). The best example to see the problem is: 1. visit https://www.scoop.it/t/secondlife-fashion 2. scroll down the page allowing all images to load 3. go to page 2 scrolling down again 4. go to page 3 scrolling down again 5. and now return to the previous page (page 2) and try to scroll down - during this FF57 will suddenly allocate all memory (8GB) making computer nearly not responding. It happens each time.

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dmitry42
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I have almost same problem, but i have less RAM

The latest version of firefox Quantum is impossible to use on the laptop with 4 GB. RAM. After half an hour of work , all the RAM and half of the swap file are used by the browser for some reason. There art ~40 tabs and they all need for work.

Some 3D applications use less RAM than the browser. Here is a screenshot of the RAM and swap file used in the normal browser operation http://prntscr.com/hgdd8v

The version is last. And there are only 2 plugins. One of them is KIS, and the other is installed recently. The problems are not because of it.

Restart helps, but not for long. After an hour of work, you often see this picture when opening already opened and loaded tabs: http://prntscr.com/hgdago

The previous version of Firefox also used a lot of RAM, but it worked realy faster and there was no load of pages.

And the information is incorrect. This plugin is incompatible with the current version of Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/ramback/

What can I try to do to reduce the use of RAM? Or is it easier to find a different browser?

ad_verbum
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In case I described you can get out of whole ram (8GB) in less than 3 minutes visiting ONLY one web page. With older FF56 it never happened - I was able to visit this web page without any problems.

WestEnd
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I think this has more to do with bad install as I have FF57 Desktop 16g RAM and have no freeze or lockups. So what is being describe is probably more systemic and FF just is highlighting it more.

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WestEnd said

I think this has more to do with bad install as I have FF57 Desktop 16g RAM and have no freeze or lockups. So what is being describe is probably more systemic and FF just is highlighting it more.

It isn't my computer system related matter! 1. It doesn't happen while using FF56 on this computer. 2. It happens also on 2 other computers I tested by opening web page I mentioned. Of course when using FF57.