I was using 3 Firefox browser tabs and it just decided to use 4 gigabytes of memory

  • Cevilia (they/she/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    192·
    2 days ago
    1. If you’re not out of ram it literally doesn’t matter how much ram is being used.
    2. Uninstall the cryptofraud anti-LGBTQ adware masquerading as a browser (Brave).
  • infeeeee@lemmy.zipEnglish
    62·
    2 days ago

    In firefox you can see which pages and addons use the memory on the about:processes page, shortcut is shift+esc.

      • infeeeee@lemmy.zipEnglish
        23·
        2 days ago

        What was the culprit?

        Also this is a kind of joke/meme community on IT topics, questions like these should go to !techsupport@lemmy.world

        Except if it’s your gentoo box running on live rat brain, and your problem is why it uses 3 bytes more than it should. For questions like that this is the correct community.

        • calango@programming.devOP
          9·
          2 days ago

          What was the culprit?

          Also this is a kind of joke/meme community on IT topics, questions like these should go to !techsupport@lemmy.world

          Except if it’s your gentoo box running on live rat brain, and your problem is why it uses 3 bytes more than it should. For questions like that this is the correct community.

          sorry friend, lately browsers have been very heavy and I used Firefox because it is light, so now nothing is more meaningful

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    361·
    2 days ago

    I never understand why people upset about processes using ram. It’s there to be used. If it’s not being used then things are not being cached properly.

    Now, if there are other higher priority processes and the browser doesn’t give back the tam, that’s different. From your screenshot, why wouldn’t you want it using the ram? Otherwise it’ll cache to disk and you’ll have a worse experience.

  • scttgard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    2 days ago

    Librewolf is using around 200mb of memory with 19 tabs open. What the hell is Firefox doing?

  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
    7·
    2 days ago

    You guys have RAM?? I just zram to my 20GB ATA HDD.

    (but current horrors aside - you are fine imho, FF can show you usage per page, and that’s prob cache with no CPU usage, super dependant on what the opened pages are)