Comment by wincy
14 hours ago
My wife’s 8GB MacBook Air crashed yesterday with Firefox and Find My open and nothing else because of running out of RAM, so, sort of, but they’re not magic. (Find My was using 3GB of memory!)
14 hours ago
My wife’s 8GB MacBook Air crashed yesterday with Firefox and Find My open and nothing else because of running out of RAM, so, sort of, but they’re not magic. (Find My was using 3GB of memory!)
If you mean it showed the out of memory dialog, that wouldn't be caused by an app using 3GB. The dialog shows up at ~48GB swap space used on an 8GB Mac, or when you're out of disk space and can't write a swap file.
So Firefox was using 5gb? There's your problem.
It’s a losing battle me trying to tell my wife to close her Firefox tabs, haha, but yes, Firefox does use a lot of ram when you have 500 tabs. Maybe I’ll get her a 64GB MacBook Pro for the premium web browsing experience she so desires!
Auto Tab Discard: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...
I have a Firefox window with 3500 tabs right now.
Tabs as bookmarks, people keep falling into this trap, my wife included
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She shouldn't have to do anything. That's the browser's job.
What page? Azure portal is notorious for leaking memory in both chrome and firefox, that’s the only tab I’ve seen using 5+ gb ram.
Is it leaking or is it by design? As far as I remember Azure site is just all of the pages combined in one single massive DOM.