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Re:Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers by buzer on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:59PM (#48559291)
Firefox leaks memory. When I have it open for long time the memory usage will increase and even if I were to close all tabs & do memory minimization it will still use multiple gigabytes of memory.

While I cannot be sure, I assume that is the cause of the general slowdown I experience as well.

Restarting Firefox will fix free up the memory & fix the slowness. I do still use it as my primary browser despite these issues.

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Re:Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers by ldom66 on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @03:00PM (#48560280)
Is that on Windows? I use Linux and Mac and haven't had memory leaks. In fact, Chrome is more a problem for me on the Mac since my wife likes to keep Chrome windows open on her profile indefinitely, and Chrome keeps downloading updates on the background and takes a large chunk of my hard drive keeping every version that ever existed in the .App file.
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Re:Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers by buzer on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @04:40PM (#48561728)
Windows so maybe that is related.

Do note that I regularly have multiple browser windows open (and these are usually on private mode) with 50+ tabs so my usage pattern is not very standard.

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