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Firefox eating a lot of RAM (8GB out of 12 GB)

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I love firefox but I just can't accept this. It eats a lot of RAM though before when I open at least 7 tabs, it only eats 2-3 GB of RAM. How to solved this?

I love firefox but I just can't accept this. It eats a lot of RAM though before when I open at least 7 tabs, it only eats 2-3 GB of RAM. How to solved this?
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What bit version of FF was it before the update? And now what is the bit version for the current FF?

What bit version of FF was it before the update? - I don't know since I didn't check it because it has no problem before.

And now what is the bit version for the current FF? - It says 58.0(64 bit)

Meanwhile on Google Chrome with 33 Tabs open. Only ~3 GB memory used,

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