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YouTube Insane Memory Leakage

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dessertdish respondeu 2 horas atrás
brotherman227
brotherman227

I am using YouTube. One singular tab of YouTube takes up 4 GB of ram. Two tabs take 8 GB. Having more than two tabs quite literally provides me 20 GB of memory usage. This is preposterous.

The fixes I have tried is

- Disabling all extensions; this does not help in the slightest. - Refreshing the startup cache - helped first 10 minutes went from 400mb to later 5 gb (one tab) - Refreshing the Firefox cache - helped also first 10 min, and then memory leakage came back. - Disabled YouTube Ambience - did not help.

I have a top-end gaming computer, this should not be an issue.

I am not sure what to do from here on out, please advice

I am using YouTube. One singular tab of YouTube takes up 4 GB of ram. Two tabs take 8 GB. Having more than two tabs quite literally provides me 20 GB of memory usage. This is preposterous. The fixes I have tried is - Disabling all extensions; this does not help in the slightest. - Refreshing the startup cache - helped first 10 minutes went from 400mb to later 5 gb (one tab) - Refreshing the Firefox cache - helped also first 10 min, and then memory leakage came back. - Disabled YouTube Ambience - did not help. I have a top-end gaming computer, this should not be an issue. I am not sure what to do from here on out, please advice
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brotherman227
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I forgot to mention:

I enableded hardware acceleration; did not help I switched to av1 decoding and that did not help

dessertdish
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Hello,

This is a known memory leak issue.

You can reduce this by going to about:config, accept risk (use at own discretion), search for dom.ipc.processCount, and set it to 1 or 2.

Next, you can go to about:memory, and click "minimize memory usage" and it will automatically reduce the ram.

Next, try opening youtube in a private window and testing, and if the memory leak disappears, it is likely a cookies/cache issue.

Lastly, try without adblock or tracker blockers for a bit. These can sometimes balloon memory usage.

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