i was watching youtube on chrome, ram was 330mb
so i decided to try out firefox since some say its better, and its using 550mb on a single tab of youtube, cpu usage is much lower than chrome, however
is this normal?
Posted Jun 3, 2021, 9:17 PM UTC
I have Firefox developer edition with 30+ tabs open right now and it sits at 928 Mb.
that's quite strange, i have one tab open and it shows 8 instances, and 900mb ram usage
ye and nightly is even better for me it sits around like 870 mb
The whole point of RAM is to be used. Any app that has some data to get cached in RAM should do so, else you're going to wait few seconds just scrolling a webpage or switching a tab. All browser RAM related jokes are coming from uneducated people, because whenever some foreground app requires more RAM than there's available at the moment - all background apps will start caching to the drive instead. Don't think about it, just use any browser you like.
Is it a single tab, or firefox overall? Task Manager by default shows the programs total usage, which would include firefox itself and all open tabs, it won't show per tab unless you expand the entry in task manager and look at each individual instance.
it shows 7 instances, however only one tab is open... what does that mean?
its a security feature, it runs in the background thats why tehre are 7 also i use firefox while if you use like 1-2 tabs its more memory heavy but you can open 30-35 tabs and it will only use 1.14 gb
edit: dont ask me how i know
interesting stuff, thansk