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High Heap Memory Usage On Apple Silicon (M1)

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raoanu2004
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The amount of memory firefox takes is drastically higher (2GB + tabs and extensions) on Apple Silicon when compared to having the same tabs open on windows or linux.

When I look into the memory tree generated at `about:memory`, it seems that the `heap` is allocated nearly 1.5GB.

I am just a computer science student at the moment but that seems unusual to me. Please find the attached memory-report.json.gz file here

The amount of memory firefox takes is drastically higher (2GB + tabs and extensions) on Apple Silicon when compared to having the same tabs open on windows or linux. When I look into the memory tree generated at `about:memory`, it seems that the `heap` is allocated nearly 1.5GB. I am just a computer science student at the moment but that seems unusual to me. Please find the attached memory-report.json.gz file [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KydXdW62NczbR_RIMHI53uaiYQQCjClQ/view?usp=sharing here]
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