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Firefox using very high amounts of memory and locking up.

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It's not letting me upload the pics on this form so I put them here: https://imgur.com/a/y05qiAC

Over the past month I have been noticing that Firefox just absolutely runs wild with memory allocation. If you look at these screenshots you can see it hogging over 17GB of ram...

Over the weeks I have tried a few things, one of them was a clean reinstall with no existing profile folder. Is there a way for me to limit the maximum amount of usable ram or find out what exactly is doing this?

It's not letting me upload the pics on this form so I put them here: https://imgur.com/a/y05qiAC Over the past month I have been noticing that Firefox just absolutely runs wild with memory allocation. If you look at these screenshots you can see it hogging over 17GB of ram... Over the weeks I have tried a few things, one of them was a clean reinstall with no existing profile folder. Is there a way for me to limit the maximum amount of usable ram or find out what exactly is doing this?

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Thanks for the reply, testing now.

FredMcD said

Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there?
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Alright, so far it seems okay. I was noticing those very large numbers after a few hours though. One of those pages talks about enabling addons one by one and testing. It will take a long time but I think I've got a plan here. Thank you.

FredMcD said

Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-slow-how-make-it-faster https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-many-cpu-resources-how-fix https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-hangs-or-not-responding https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-takes-long-time-start-up
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Keep us posted.

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See also the about:memory page. You can open "about:" pages via the location/address bar

  • "about:" is a protocol to access special pages

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See also the Firefox Task Manager (about:performance) page.