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.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=memory+leak
Where?
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.