Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness

Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by nbadg on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:20PM (#12438066)

For a reference point on scaling, on a Windows 7 machine that hasn't been shutdown in a week or two, I have a long-running Firefox session with 5 windows and 80-something tabs, and I'm at 1.7 GB. Half a GB of that is being consumed by the Google Music player.

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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by wldcordeiro on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:25PM (#12438115)

I've noticed Google Play Music is heavy. It can easily consume half a GB or more on my machine. I think at this point the browsers are doing the best job they can but it's pretty telling that it's the web apps/sites we use that cost us memory.

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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by cpeterso on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @12:36AM (#12440995)

Google Play Music uses Flash in Firefox (but not in Chrome), so part of the memory usage is out of Mozilla's control.

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