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FX 30.0 Is it normal that after only 5 hours of use the memory is above 1.500.000 K?

charlotteauxfraises
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Hello it is all in my above question.FYI I have 12 tabs opened and my average is between 10 & 15. Before 30.0 the memory consumption was around 600-700k, but now it quickly amounts to above 1.500.000k. The crashes happens after 1.700.000 k and an automatic report is send to Mozilla.

As said I do not have too much problem with this but it is annoying as my computer slows down.

Kind regards to you all. Charlotte

Hello it is all in my above question.FYI I have 12 tabs opened and my average is between 10 & 15. Before 30.0 the memory consumption was around 600-700k, but now it quickly amounts to above 1.500.000k. The crashes happens after 1.700.000 k and an automatic report is send to Mozilla. As said I do not have too much problem with this but it is annoying as my computer slows down. Kind regards to you all. Charlotte

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.

  • Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
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iamjayakumars
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Reducing memory usage - Firefox

cor-el
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Chosen Solution

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.

  • Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
charlotteauxfraises
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Thank you. Indeed in safe mode FX works fine below 150k. I will have now to identify which add-on is causing the memory problem.