General Discussions

[black_zion]

I've been noticing it for the last couple of months, only happens on these forums, memory usage will climb to the several gigabyte range before falling again back to normal

[elstaci]

If Firefox had that type of memory usage (6 gbytes), My computer would probably start freezing or crashing whenever I used Firefox.

When I am running Firefox, it uses around 550- 650 mbytes of memory whereas Google Chrome uses around 350 - 450 mbytes of memory. Firefox does seem to be a Memory hog for some reason. But I will keep an eye on the Memory usage since you brought to the Forum's attention.

[bearcat22]

Firefox 57 memory leak on some websites | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support

[elstaci]

Damn, that link is correct. I went to Weather.com on latest Firefox with one Tab open. Task Manager showing around 28% CPU Usages but over 1.6 gigabyte of RAM Memory being used.

[hotrith]

Strange, my firefox is not affected, RAM 700mb and CPU 0 - 1% version 59.0.2

[elstaci]

I did it a second time with same version as before Firefox 59.02. When I went to Weather.com the CPU fluctuated between .04% to 2.5% with around 920 gbytes of Memory being used.  As soon as I clicked on Okay to use my location, the Memory shot up to over 1.2 gbytes and CPU fluctuated between 1.5% to 5% usage.

[hotrith]

Still no issue, ram dont go above 700mb and cpu go to 5% for a second and go back to 0 - 1%, maybe is my ASC11 that is handling the things since i use to optimize everything even internal features from MS, to not spy you.

[pokester]

I will keep an eye out for this and keep Firefox open and see. Since going to an SSD I rarely leave my browser open so I close it as soon as I am done. I have these pages set to load when relaunched. I will check it out though.

[black_zion]

Why don't you leave your browser open with an SSD? Modern drives have an endurance rating of not less than 50TBW unless you get a really junk drive, even the 250gb Samsung 850 Evo has a 75TBW endurance.

[pokester]

Honestly no good reason other than it relaunches so darn fast I just close it. I have an NVME drive with 3D nand so re-writes were never even a consideration. Honestly it's mostly just to clear the browser cache and history, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more....

[pokester]

So while watching my memory usage over an hour with only this forum open with one page in Firefox I went from 4500 mb to 11500 mb of used ram. So yes I would definitely say there is a leak. It however doesn't clear when I close the AMD page. So is that the browser or the AMD forum. It could be that any number of pages out there could have the same affect on Firefox. I am going to see what I get in Opera by contrast next.

[pokester]

Okay, zero change in Opera, it is fine.

[elstaci]

Wow, 4.5 to 11.5 gbytes of RAM Memory being used. My computer has 16 gbytes of RAM installed. It uses about 73 +/- % of RAM when idle due to running background programs and services. I imagine if Firefox used 11 gbytes, my computer or Firefox would definitely slowdown or crash since it would be using Hard drive as a memory backup (Page File).

[pokester]

It sure could depending on how bad the leak is. I have thought for a long time that the issues some have (including myself) with rise of the tomb raider were fundamentally a memory leak. Since getting my new machine with 32gbs of ram, zero issues. I fired off a bug report to mozilla on the firefox memory bug and how to reproduce it earlier today.

[elstaci]

The link mentioned previously said to go to Weather.com. That seems to cause the massive leak to show better.

[brucer]

Mine stays consistent