09-10-2023 07:10 AM - edited 10-14-2023 09:09 AM
In the past few days, when using Firefox, it suddenly takes up too much RAM. Even if most of the page is turned off, there is no improvement.
Only by closing and reopening Firefox will the occupied RAM be released.
Let me mention my daily usage. When I open Firefox, I am used to returning to the last browsing status, but most of the time those tabs are not read. In addition, I have 1 to 3 Youtube videos, Discord and kancolle (web games) running. Before updating to version 117, my RAM usage was only 70% at most.
The above two pictures are bug.
The following is the normal situation.
10-12-2023 04:57 AM
10-13-2023 03:37 AM
I have just the same problem, it uses 11.8 gig of data at its peak, makes PC unuseable
10-13-2023 08:29 AM - edited 10-13-2023 08:31 AM
I found that RAM usage spiked after a certain operation.
There is a chance that this BUG will be triggered after dragging the tab out to become an independent window.
Usually the content of that web page is multimedia, such as web games or Youtube picture-in-picture.
This situation rarely occurs in the current version 118.0.2, but it may still be triggered.
10-14-2023 05:36 AM
Firefox is running multiple instances of their own same process 5 to 8 times and always one of them starts eating up ram space like crazy.I got instances of up to 16 gigs of ram being used to run Mozilla. All you need to do to create this bug is open two tabs off YouTube or any video website that requires any rendering whatsoever and the bug pops up. Last night I just left it alone for 20 minutes and it started eating up all my ram.
10-14-2023 07:54 AM
Yes, it is really awful. I am moving over to Edge until things get sorted
10-14-2023 09:11 AM
The problem has been slightly improved in version 118, but it still happens.
Is there any way to let the development team know about this issue? I'm not sure if they saw this thread.
10-17-2023 02:37 PM
Personally I had this issue from this version last version wasn't that bad. I did report but there doesn't seem to be anyway to report the problem. I tried reporting the bug several ways they all lead to common issues not ways to report to the technical team.
02-12-2024 07:53 AM - edited 02-12-2024 07:54 AM
This is happening a lot to me now, as well. Some pages, one in particular is Yahoo Finance, Firefox will suck up my RAM, often to 96% of RAM in use. PC Bogs down and I am lucky if I can kill the PID for Firefox in Task Manager. My current version is 115.7.0esr
02-12-2024 08:02 AM
Interesting from what I gather it seems to query the system for how much RAM it has and then hogs it to itself.