• Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
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        10 months ago

        Yeah I don’t have this problem on Windows either but Chrome will chug endlessly through RAM

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      10 months ago

      Linux user here, Firefox basically just stays open 24/7 are you sure it’s not an extension? Maybe something else?

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          Ok, and I’m sure you did uninstall reboot reinstall. Shit, I can’t think of what that can be. Any themes installed? I know that can count as extensions but in case you overlooked it I’m mentioning it. I haven’t seen this. Aside from a few things that I mentioned I can’t think of what would be causing it maybe try to redownload a fresh copy. Idk I’m in it I’m just trying to help.

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            10 months ago

            No themes. And I did try all kinds of stuff. One thing for sure. Waterfox doesn’t do that for me so I’ve been using that. Maybe it was a windows issue at the time. (Maybe to push people to use edge. But that’s too much of a conspiracy theory.) Waterfox works without that issue on windows and Linux for me and my friend who also switched after the same issue. I appreciate you trying to help.

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        10 months ago

        They don’t recognize it officially but people talk about all the time. It seems it’s because Firefox doesn’t have a tab freezing feature built in for inactive tabs so websites might have JavaScript errors that can cause this. There is literally a post on Firefox subreddit from 2 days ago with people talking about it. A friend of mine also recently finally caved and switched from Firefox to opera because his ram gradually got used more and more the longer he had Firefox open.