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recently updated versions have memory leak

heighgun
heighgun
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see below screen capture. I am always open 3 windows with totally about200 tabs, but usually 5~6 tabs per window opened all the time, and when a day passed, the PC became slow and found Firefox process consume at least 1GB of memory and up to 10GB。

see below screen capture. I am always open 3 windows with totally about200 tabs, but usually 5~6 tabs per window opened all the time, and when a day passed, the PC became slow and found Firefox process consume at least 1GB of memory and up to 10GB。
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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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If you check the internal page about:processes can you figure out which sites are the memory hogs, or is it Firefox itself, or an extension?