MarkHaigh
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Here's a curious thing I noticed with Firefox.
Over time it gradually hogs a lot more memory. It usually starts at around 180MB, but climbs over time to 400MB+.
Now my laptop often goes a week or so without a reboot (wow, I guess Windows did get better without us really noticing
). So I'm not sure how long it takes for that to happen.
When I close Firefox it disappears from view rapidly. But I've also watched it in task manager... where it slowly unloads itself, with memory used bouncing around (up and down) until it finally disappears - some 30 seconds or so later..!
Is this typical Firefox behaviour? Does Firefox not manage memory very well? Maybe I have a badly behaved Add-On?
Over time it gradually hogs a lot more memory. It usually starts at around 180MB, but climbs over time to 400MB+.
Now my laptop often goes a week or so without a reboot (wow, I guess Windows did get better without us really noticing
When I close Firefox it disappears from view rapidly. But I've also watched it in task manager... where it slowly unloads itself, with memory used bouncing around (up and down) until it finally disappears - some 30 seconds or so later..!
Is this typical Firefox behaviour? Does Firefox not manage memory very well? Maybe I have a badly behaved Add-On?