UPDATE - Firefox is still eating just as much memory over time; it’s now up to ~200Mb. However, with this morning’s fix, as detailed below, it remains rock-solid stable. Last week, it would go down like a cheap… ermmm… cheap thing. Yeah.
Nice.
More information to light on the previously mentioned Firefox memory issue.
As you read through the comments, you’ll notice there are many people mentioning memory leaks associated with extensions and the like. Well, I run a s%#@load of extensions (25 at current count), and suspected they were the collective, but unidentifiable, culprits. This fix at least seems to have them reined in.
This one seems to have a significant effect, my Firefox RAM usage hasn’t topped 90Mb (previously, close to 200Mb was common) since I implemented browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to 0. There’s no noticeable degradation in performance.
Firefox Memory leak….
The Firefox web browser frequently comes under criticism for using up more memory than a user would expect it to. Inside Firefox has published an article dismissing claims that the excessive memory usage is anything other than an intentional feature….