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Firefox becomes slow after a couple of weeks open (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
submitted 1 week ago by TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Does anyone have this issue were firefox becomes slow if left open for a long time. In my case after a couple of weeks rendering becomes slow and when I use youtube for example if is laggy, just trying to change volume taka few second to show the volume bar. It also happens to my laptop at work. I have around 30 tabs open.

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[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Dawg I had like ~35 tabs open and hadn't restarted my PC in over three weeks. Fucking Firefox was sucking back 80 gigs of RAM. 80 fucking gigs.

On the bright side all the tabs were still loaded when I clicked through them.

[–] TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I can't wait for Servo to be finished so I can move away from Firefox, it uses way too much memory.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Servo won't protect you against shitty websites gobbling up memory.

[–] TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It will still lower memory usage considerably, Firefox uses way more memory than Chrome. Memory optimization is horrible in Firefox.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

[citation needed]

[–] TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I test firefox vs edge in my pc, both with ublock origin. Firefox noticeably uses more ram than edge which uses same engine as chrome.

Here this person saw the same results as me: https://libreddit.bus-hit.me/r/firefox/comments/18gp19l/ram_usage_in_firefox_vs_edge

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Their methodology (and therefore likely yours aswell) is flawed and it was immediately pointed out in that thread too: https://libreddit.bus-hit.me/r/firefox/comments/18gp19l/ram_usage_in_firefox_vs_edge/kd2u2pq/?context=3#kd2u2pq

Measuring the memory "a process" actually "uses" is not trivial.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm so hyped as well! Just read their monthly update blog today actually! I'm mostly hyped because it's the first actual new web browser in a very, very long time, and that's just plain exciting!

[–] TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are two new browsers coming Servo written in Rust and Ladybird (web browser) written in Swift. Lets see which one will win. Ladybird alpha is coming in 2026 and they have more funding.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Oh awesome, I didn't even know about this other project. Thanks for letting me know.

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