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Unbelievable Firefox 49 insane memory hog!!

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kennyreid95
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This is ridiculous Mozilla you really have lost your reputation for having best browser. I just give up using firefox. I only had 19 tabs open and then I closed 14 tabs, memory was still extremely high what the hell?! Mozilla fix these issues please.

My current system specs

Case: Enermax Ostrog GT ATX Mid Tower ECA3280A-BR CPU: i7 4790K Motherboard: Asus Z97 Deluxe Ram: Crucial CRBLS16K1280 16GB Hard Drives: WD10EZEX 00BN5A0 1 TB HDD and PNY CS1311 256 GB SSD Blu Ray Drive: WH16NS40 Power Supply: EVGA 650 G2 Video Card: Sapphire Vapor X R9 290 4GB OS: Windows 7 64Bit Water Cooler: Corsair H105 Monitor: Acer H257HU

This is ridiculous Mozilla you really have lost your reputation for having best browser. I just give up using firefox. I only had 19 tabs open and then I closed 14 tabs, memory was still extremely high what the hell?! Mozilla fix these issues please. My current system specs Case: Enermax Ostrog GT ATX Mid Tower ECA3280A-BR CPU: i7 4790K Motherboard: Asus Z97 Deluxe Ram: Crucial CRBLS16K1280 16GB Hard Drives: WD10EZEX 00BN5A0 1 TB HDD and PNY CS1311 256 GB SSD Blu Ray Drive: WH16NS40 Power Supply: EVGA 650 G2 Video Card: Sapphire Vapor X R9 290 4GB OS: Windows 7 64Bit Water Cooler: Corsair H105 Monitor: Acer H257HU
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FredMcD
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web Link} by holding down the <Shift>
(Mac=Options) key, and then starting Firefox. A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh).

Is the problem still there?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/websites-look-wrong-or-appear-differently

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-hangs-or-not-responding

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firefox+is+already+running+but+is+not+responding