![]() With all WF windows shut down but the browser still on and “at rest”, it went down to around 500 – 600 MB. No longer in “safe mode” and with all add-ons enabled but a certain one, and up to 7 windows open and each connected to some Web site, but doing nothing there, RAM usage went up to 650 – 750 MB. Just now I have followed your suggestion and tried both running either in safe mode, or just with all add-ons disabled and the result was that, with WF on but: (a) with no windows open, that is doing nothing or “at rest”, this browser was taking up some 330 – 400 MB, or (b) some 550 MB of RAM, when not in “safe mode”, but with the add-ons disabled. (Most explanations in Waterfox, as for example, the one quoted above, are copied from those for FireFox, of which the former is a fork, so often it is “FireFox, no “Waterfox” that is mentioned in “ Have you checked if resetting the browser, or at least trying the “safe mode” the problem persist?” That much RAM would be equal to half the available one in my Mac and to all of it in my Windows/Linux PC! The above quotation is from the explanation linked to the “Performance” item. “ If the information about your Mac shows more than 8 GB of RAM, you might want to try bumping up the number of content processes that Firefox uses from its default value as you would likely benefit from a high content process limit.” The amount of RAM I was discussing is the one with NO windows open, which is rather remarkable! But it could be worse: Also I can see that we both have the same plugins enabled, I am not sure if I need “Hotkey.” I’ll have to look into that, of course. I very rarely have more than three windows open and most often just one. Looking in General/Performance I have ticked the default “use recommended performance settings” and, with that, also the default number (4) of processes (or of windows open, I imagine). Muchas gracias por la muy amable explicación, bien claramente ilustrada con esos “shots” de su pantalla. This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by migongo. But, in my humble opinion, I would blame the problem to any missed tweak in the “about:config” settings. I notice you have not installed the “Hotfix for Firefox bug mitigation” extension (see screenshot) Try it in case of whatever conflict with any of your extensions or plugins. However even this shouldn’t be a problem, since I always been using 6 of the 7 offered processes. How many processes have you chosen (Settings – General – Performance – Processes content limit) ? They say the most you choose the most RAM will be used. Never experienced a huge memory consumption beyond 1 GB, except in case of more than 15 open tabs and more than 3 hours surfing, in average. I have 16 GB of RAM in this machine and 8 GB in the Windows 7 + Linux PC, so the amount of memory taken by Waterfox is not a real problem for me, but I think it is worth remarking upon, as others might have considerably less RAM in their machines than I use Waterfox as my default browser since long time ago (as long as Firefox Quantum refuses many of my API extensions) in both of my Windows systems: 8.1 Pro (64) with 6 GB DDR3 RAM, and 10 Pro v. So being used or just being turned on made little difference.įirefox takes considerably less RAM and Chrome even less, as you can see, for example, in the attached screenshot (I was using the Mac’s “Activity Monitor” built-in application when I made this screenshot). When using it to browse, it was taking maybe another 20 – 30 MB. ![]() ![]() I use Waterfox as my default browser in my Mac and in my Windows 7 and Linux PC, and yesterday I was reminded of that older discussion, when I noticed that Waterfox, even when turned on but not being used at the time, was taking over 3/4 of GB of RAM. This has already been treated, along with several other issues, in an older thread that I have been unable to find, so I am starting this one on a more specific issue than what was discussed in that one:
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