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Taking up too much memory and tried many solutions

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techmediocre
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Having just 1 tab open -- my gmail -- firefox is taking nearly 1GB of memory. Opening an empty tab pushes to memory used over 1GB. Also there are 12 listed tabs in the Task Manager.

I already took multiple steps. Cleared cache and cookies. Put in troubleshoot mode and refreshed. Minimized memory usage via about:memory.

Please help.

Having just 1 tab open -- my gmail -- firefox is taking nearly 1GB of memory. Opening an empty tab pushes to memory used over 1GB. Also there are 12 listed tabs in the Task Manager. I already took multiple steps. Cleared cache and cookies. Put in troubleshoot mode and refreshed. Minimized memory usage via about:memory. Please help.

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TyDraniu
TyDraniu
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What addons do you have?

cor-el
cor-el
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You can check the about:memory and about:processes pages for info about all processes. See also the about:unloads page for info about the tabs.

Terry
Terry
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The Firefox Task Manager will show what resources tabs and add-ons are using. about:performance or Task Manager under Tools or More tools in the menus. This support article may be of some help.

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