Firefox Quantum Uses an excessive amount of ram for Addons க்கான சமீபத்திய பதில்கள்https://support.mozilla.org/ta/questions/12385642019-02-04T09:06:37-08:00judess69er said
Ever since upgrading to Firefox Quantum, I have noticed a huge RAM issue and after2019-02-04T09:06:37-08:00Pj_FFhttps://support.mozilla.org/ta/questions/1238564#answer-1194068<p><em>judess69er <a href="#question-1238564" rel="nofollow">said</a></em>
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Ever since upgrading to Firefox Quantum, I have noticed a huge RAM issue and after looming around forums for many months gathering different viewpoints on this problem, I feel like the issue is most likely being caused by the new Add-on (Extension) handling protocols. <br><br>
Once you disable every single Add-on, you will notice Firefox uses about 80% less ram. The problem isn't that I have too many Add-ons. Even with a single Add-on enabled, the RAM usage dramatically increases. <br><br>
I personally only use an ad-blocker and Google translator - very lightweight Add-ons for any other version of Firefox until it hits Quantum, and no I don't use 100 tabs in a single session. <br><br>
I normally use like 2-3 tabs and have only about 8 tabs only max, but if that doesn't convince you, at Mozilla, that Quantum has horrible Add-on handling, take this into your figures: <br><br>
Quantum without Add-ons idles on a fresh restart at about 400mb RAM usage, but once you enable an Add-on, that number jumps up to about 500-600mb and every Add-on enabled after that compounds the usage issue. <br><br>
This wasn't a problem with Firefox until quantum was introduced, and from what I hear about the Firefox Quantum, the Add-on handling was changed to disallow Add-ons access to specific browser system files that some Add-ons were using that caused Firefox to crash. <br><br>
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but “Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” <br><br>
I've eliminated all the other probable causes and the changes to the Add-on handling is all that remains.
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<p>I see you using an older version of Flash. You probably should update that to the latest (...114). Also, FF 65 is supposed to be a bit better on Memory. You should update it also.
</p><p>Which Ad-Blocker do you use? I had ABP (Ad-Blocker Plus) and found <strong>uBlock Origin</strong> to be more Memory-Friendly with my old computer (Nov 2010, 8GB RAM). <br>
</p><p>I do see in Task Manager, <strong>Physical Memory Usage</strong> over time creeps up the graph, eventually nearing my 8GB my computer has. So, depending how many Tabs/Sites I visit, when the Graph Line nears the top, I hear my disk drive go into 'crunch' mode. This must be FF Caching Data. This can happen within several days or 4 or 5 days later, depending on my FF use. <br>
</p><p>However, one it reaches this point, the browser performance takes a nasty hit. The only way to regain better performance for me, is to Exit (Quit) FF and restart it. <br>
</p><p>Please do this: <br>
</p><p>Click on the Windows icon '<strong>Start'</strong> (bottom-left) and in the right column, bottom, click on <strong>Run</strong>. Enter in:
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&lt;center&gt;<strong>DxDiag /64bit</strong>&lt;/center&gt;<br>
&lt;center&gt; (Skip the <strong>/64bit</strong> part if it's Windows 32-Bit.)&lt;/center&gt;<br>
<p>...Wait until the green bar loads and disappears, then click "<strong>Save All Information</strong>". <br>
Post back here in the Forum, just these information parts, under these three Headers:<br>
</p><pre> <strong>System Information</strong><br>
<strong>Display Devices</strong><br>
<strong>Disk &amp; DVD/CD-ROM Drives</strong><br>
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<p>Make sure your computer is not too 'LOW' on disk-remaining space. This will be a major performance problem if your remaining disk space is <strong>TOO LOW!</strong><br>
Example: At the moment, I have 37% space free. If you're way under 25%, then you're probably running into performance / Memory issues.<br>
Windows-7 and Programs like to have plenty of free-disk 'breathing' room. I recently cleared over 75 Gigs worth to get me to about 37% of free disk space.<br><br>
Perhaps you may wish to setup a <strong>ReadyBoost</strong> Flash Drive.<br>
If you have a lot of Windows and Tabs (ok, you said you don't, but for others that do...) and your FireFox Browser is set to <strong>Restore Session</strong> when you start-up FF, the following will help with conserving some Memory:<br><br>
Go to <strong>Options</strong>. Edit or Insert in the URL Box <strong>About:Config</strong> and go there. Set the following Values:<br>
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<p><strong>browser.newtabpage.enabled; false</strong><br><br>
<strong>browser.newtabpage.enhanced; false</strong><br><br>
<strong>browser.sessionstore.restore_pinned_tabs_on_demand; true</strong>
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This will preload only the last Tab you were parked on per browser window. The other Tabs from your Previous Session will load only when you click on them.<br><br>
If you open a lot of browser windows, you can set the maximum 'remembered' browser windows higher than the default for your Restored Session. My max is set for 25:<br><br>
&lt;center&gt;<strong>browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo; 25</strong>&lt;/center&gt;<br>
<p>Additionally, you could try this also. Have FF reset how much Disk Cache it will use for your system by changing the following to <strong>true</strong>:<br>
</p><p><strong>browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run</strong> - false<br>
</p><p>It will change back to <strong>false</strong> after FF is Exited and runs next time, setting-up your Disk Cache value. Maybe this doesn't need to run again, but I did it a while back and it 'appeared' to help me. <br><br>
</p><p>Finally, I did the following FireFox adjustments for my old 2010 computer with the <strong>Performance</strong> settings in <strong>Options</strong> as shown in the image attachment:
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</p><p>~Pj
</p>Hi,
I have the same problem but here is what makes it worse. My desktop has 8 GB RAM and when FireF2019-02-04T03:40:53-08:00ptulkenshttps://support.mozilla.org/ta/questions/1238564#answer-1193988<p>Hi,
I have the same problem but here is what makes it worse. My desktop has 8 GB RAM and when FireFox runs, it eats easily 3 GB... Since the other applications use 4 GB, I'm at the limit but it still works. Now, my lap-top has only 4 GB RAM and when FireFox runs, there is not much RAM available... This appeared only with the Quantum. How can we limit the amount of RAM FireFox takes&nbsp;?
</p>Myself, no problems with RAM, but I do find that at times when using FirefOx, that my laptop slows t2018-10-28T12:33:33-07:00Chuckles71https://support.mozilla.org/ta/questions/1238564#answer-1167990<p>Myself, no problems with RAM, but I do find that at times when using FirefOx, that my laptop slows to a crawl.
</p><p>I'm not clear why as nothing is maxing out (CPU, Ram are fine), but it happens anyway.
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