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0 pointsSloopJon11y ago0 comments

Yes, it is insane. I've actually never seen it that high before. I get annoyed when it's over one or two GB.

There has to be a leak of some kind, but I don't know how to diagnose it. Activity Monitor has me at 756 MB right now, but it will creep back up over the next few days.

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masklinn11y ago

> There has to be a leak of some kind, but I don't know how to diagnose it

Nicholas Nethercote's blog[0] has many entries on memory, memory profiling &al as he's one of the big "memshrink" guys.

about:memory might be a good start, after reading his memshrink entries[1] and maybe contacting him.

Although the very first order of business is to check your extensions, extension leaks is the most common source of trouble (and has been for a long time). Disable everything, see what happens, then re-enable extensions one by one.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/category/memshrink/

jason_dstillery11y ago

You can type 'about:memory' into the address bar and it will show you where all your memory is going.

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