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FireFox Memory Leak while watching twitch.tv

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While watching twitch.tv live streams using HTML5 the amount of RAM that FireFox uses constantly increases overtime. When the browser is close after watching a stream on Twitch the amount of RAM that is still no longer being used doesn't decrease.

While watching twitch.tv live streams using HTML5 the amount of RAM that FireFox uses constantly increases overtime. When the browser is close after watching a stream on Twitch the amount of RAM that is still no longer being used doesn't decrease.

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FredMcD said

Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-slow-how-make-it-faster https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-many-cpu-resources-how-fix https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-hangs-or-not-responding https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-takes-long-time-start-up

Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately, running FireFox in safe mode and watching a stream on twitch it constantly lags and spikes CPU usage when in safe mode.

Any other ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,

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Did you check the links I posted?