Firefox using HUGE amounts of CPU and memory
I'm using the latest Firefox on Win10, with a fairly powerful laptop (64 gb RAM, intel i7 2.3 GHz chip), and for about a month now, whenever I use it, it uses so much CPU all the time that my laptop is overheating (slight hyperbole, but it's definitely churning the fans a lot, and the area around the keyboard gets hot to the touch). Sometimes it uses up to 45% CPU, and over 20% memory!!! (as reported in the task manager) Usually around 20-25% though. While Chrome, at the same time, is using 0.1%. It's not just when starting up, either, it's continuous during use, until I quit Firefox.
What the h*** is going on?!? I've tried the troubleshooting steps, but it remains crazy regardless of turning off extensions, and I'm just using the default theme. I notice it's mainly when loading images, like on social media.
This is insane. What is happening. Can someone help me?
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Introducing Firefox’s new Site Isolation Security Architecture https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/05/introducing-firefox-new-site-isolation-security-architecture/
Firefox's Project Fission: better security and more processes https://www.ghacks.net/2019/02/07/firefoxs-project-fission-better-security-and-more-processes/
Change how many processes multi-process Firefox uses https://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/15/change-how-many-processes-multi-process-firefox-uses/
What gen i7? How many windows do you have open and how many tabs in each window? As a test I would suggest you open the same amount of windows and tabs with the same content in any other browser and compare.
Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.6
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.12
Kernel Version: 6.4.0-150600.23.17-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 62.1 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
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It's Intel 11th gen i7. It happens even if I only have one window open, if that window is on SoMe (several different sites). I don't really use tabs that much, and it happens even if there are none open. As I mentioned, I opened Chrome and got a vastly different result - only 0.1% CPU usage, which I think is reasonable if you're just looking at non-GIF memes (or even gifs, but DEFINITELY when just viewing jpgs or whatever).
I also noticed that it seems to crash explorer.exe sometimes, though I don't see it under crash reports. Nothing else I run does this.
Application Basics
Name: Firefox Version: 130.0 Build ID: 20240829075237 Distribution ID: Update Channel: release User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0 OS: Windows_NT 10.0 19045 Launcher Process: Enabled Multiprocess Windows: 4/4 Fission Windows: 4/4 Enabled by default Remote Processes: 16 Enterprise Policies: Inactive Google Location Service Key: Found Google Safebrowsing Key: Found Mozilla Location Service Key: Found Safe Mode: false Memory Size (RAM): 63,8 GB Disk Space Available: 3.537 GB Pointing Devices: Pen Digitizer and Mouse
Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days
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11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz 2.30 GHz