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Re:Firefox 73 by magicalhippo on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @06:49PM (#22304241)
Depends on the tabs. I can get the Slack tab to eat over 6GB of memory if I just let it sit there without periodically reloading the tab... auto-reload extensions FTW.
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Re:Firefox 73 by agumonkey on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @07:20PM (#22304461)
Sure some web apps will naturally consume immense amout of ram. My tabs were not heavy apps, but diverse usual web pages github, hn, reddit, youtube, pubmed, wikipedia, pdfs etc
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Re:Firefox 73 by magicalhippo on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @08:22PM (#22304822)
In this case it's a relatively simple live leak.
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