1430089 - Massive amount of RAM is being used compared to other browsers with the same pages.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[ewanhaynes]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20180112100121

Steps to reproduce:

Tried a complete refresh, tried disabling multithreading. Nothing works.


Actual results:

Well...twice the amount of RAM is being used.


Expected results:

..less RAM?

Comment 1

[Cosmin Muntean [:cmuntean], Ecosystem QA]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Firefox 59.0a1, Build ID: 20180116220110

I'm using latest Nightly (59.0a1) build on Windows 7 x64 and on Windows 10 x64, but I haven't observed any massive amount of RAM.

In order to reproduce this issue can you please give us more details? How many tabs do you have opened and also on which websites do you reproduce the issue?

Also, can you please also try to retest this issue using a new Firefox clean profile to eliminate custom settings as a possible cause? In order to do that, please follow the steps from here: https://goo.gl/62AXh1

Comment 2

[Cosmin Muntean [:cmuntean], Ecosystem QA]

Marking this as Resolved - Incomplete due to the lack of response from the reporter.
If anyone can still reproduce it on the latest versions, feel free to reopen the issue and provide more information.