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Firefox 56 Lag & Memory Usage After Windows 10 Fall Update 1709 16299.19

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cyberhash
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Was running the creators update fine with Firefox 56 only consuming around 300mb of ram and running smoothly. After the fall update it now runs like a cement mixer and consumes anywhere between 3.0gb and 5.0gb of ram when checked in task manager. Also seeing spikes in cpu usage along side the crazy ram usage.

Anyone else having experiencing this since the windows fall update ????

Was running the creators update fine with Firefox 56 only consuming around 300mb of ram and running smoothly. After the fall update it now runs like a cement mixer and consumes anywhere between 3.0gb and 5.0gb of ram when checked in task manager. Also seeing spikes in cpu usage along side the crazy ram usage. Anyone else having experiencing this since the windows fall update ????

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Shadow110
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Am running multi tabs on high end cpu with tons of ram and Task Manager shows am running 1 0f 3 cores 2 showing both at about 1,105.9 MB plus some add-ons with more ram...

Please report back about yours. https://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/22/multi-process-firefox/ and https://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/15/change-how-many-processes-multi-process-firefox-uses/

Also try : about studies in the address bar as per Would you go to : Options => Privacy & Security => under 'Data Collection and Use' : Did you uncheck : 'Allow Firefox to install and run studies ' or is it checked  ?

To check if you are enrolled in these studies :

Type in the address bar about:studies

Any extensions that you see listed there, you can either disable or remove, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/shield

Oh if Firefox just updated to 56.0.1 sometimes a reboot is need as that happened to mine like was using 500megs, reboot no issue.

Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.

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