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Re:Firefox 82 by MrBuddyCasino on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:43AM (#24838691)
I'd consider that if it wasn't slowly eating all the available RAM on macOS.
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Re:Firefox 82 by acdha on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @12:02PM (#24838952)
It doesn’t. Disable your extensions and re-enable them one by one until you find the one which is leaking.
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Re:Firefox 82 by kmarc on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @01:18PM (#24839968)
or check about:memory and about:performance
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Re:Firefox 82 by Tagbert on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @12:41PM (#24839491)
I find that that is usually due to certain sites that use massive amounts of poorly written scripts. You can see it in the Firefox memory report. The new Facebook UI is a good example. If you kill that content process it will free the memory and reload the page.
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