[oi-dev] Memory use with Firefox

[Gary Mills]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 05:17:37AM -0600, Matthew R. Trower wrote:
> 
> Seriously, though, I imagine it's going to be related to the kinds of sites
> you visit, what kind of assets they're sucking down, what kind of monster
> javascript frontends they want to run clientside, etc... Firefox basically
> has Operating System status these days.  I've seen individual tabs run
> anywhere from 32MB to 500MB+ each.

That sounds like cnn.com to me.

> Just like with an OS, you need a process manager to answer these questions.
> Unfortunately, you said that yours (about:process) wasn't working --- did
> you ever figure that out?

Yes, the problem seems to be with the version of firefox that was
included with the OS.  I'll have to do an upgrade to get that feature
working.


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