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Re:Firefox 51.0 by scholia on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:55PM (#13477756)
> and uses a quarter the memory somehow.

I thought Chrome was famous for being a resource hog. It consumes more RAM on my Windows PCs, though I confess I use more tabs than are viable in Chrome....

Re:Firefox 51.0 by StRoy on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:34AM (#13480024)
> I thought Chrome was famous for being a resource hog.

That's only in comparison to Safari and Edge. If you open enough tabs to cause memory issues on Chrome, Firefox would have frozen and slowed down to a crawl before filling the memory, anyhow, and electrolysis still isn't in a state where it could change that: there's still one process for the renderer so if enough intensive webpages are run your web browsing experience will still slow down.

Re:Firefox 51.0 by scholia on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @09:13AM (#13481458)
That's not what I find. How are you measuring memory use?
Re:Firefox 51.0 by twblalock on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:06PM (#13478104)
Chrome is a resource hog for me, on macOS and Windows. But Firefox is only slightly better in my experience. I last tried it about 3 months ago.
Re:Firefox 51.0 by scholia on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @09:15AM (#13481472)
You can clear out memory use in Firefox by restarting it. It doesn't create a firestorm of reloads that cripple your PC because it only reloads tabs when you click on them.