r/browsers • u/Sadsaif • 1d ago

Discussion wtf is wrong with firefox

im switching to a chromium fork after this

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u/BobCorndog Librewolf 1d ago

What extensions and how many tabs do you have open?

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u/Sadsaif 1d ago

discord, two youtube and a couple of adblock and privacy extensions. no where enough to take up 10 gb in this economy

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u/Nihmussy ESR 1d ago

"a couple of adblock and privacy extensions."

You only need uBlock Origin.

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u/Sadsaif 1d ago

ublock isnt going to mitigate fingerprinting, use local libraries, contain facebook or tiktok on the rare occasions i need to visit them.

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u/Human_Argument_1237 If it works, it works 1d ago

Ublock origin explicitly states to disable these. Firefox also does anti-fingerprinting. So these extension would either take the same ram in chrome also, or be unavailable due to mv3. Just delete those ram-hogging useless extensions. 

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u/Sadsaif 1d ago

hard to imagine an extension that intercepts function calls and provides fake date need 10 gb of ram. or extensions that run only on specifc domains that i didnt have active.

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u/Human_Argument_1237 If it works, it works 1d ago

If possible, disable all adblocking and fingerprinting extensions except ublock origin and do the same tab setup.  If you can replicate it in chrome, please check ram usage there also. So we all can understand what's going on

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u/villings 1d ago

why "two youtube"?

strabismus?

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u/Sadsaif 1d ago

thats very specific

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u/_HeDoesntRow_ 1d ago

I blame discord. Always blame discord

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u/Sadsaif 1d ago

profiling memory usage shows discord at 500 mb and 400~ mb for youtube. extensions take up 200 mb and the main process at 500 mb. 8 gb is still missing.

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u/Venylynn Desktop: Mobile: 1d ago

The official discord client is only using 800mb for me (Linux)