Originally Posted by
Silver Fox
FF is 47% of the memory on my X1 Carbon W10. How this compares with anything else I don't know but that is a heck of a lot. Been getting less and less impressed with FF over the years anyway and probably should look at something else. Netscape was alright as I recall.
Are you at 100% utilization and using disk to swap memory, slowing you down?
If not, it's intentional - using idle memory sitting around to pre-load frequently-used and cache recently-used items for performance reasons. IME, it's actually a very good software performance engineering approach. (I once had a team tackle an application that was written elsewhere and performing poorly, simply looking for caching and pre-loading opportunities. We reduced average response time from 15.5 seconds to 1.3)
And if you are, $50 to add 8GB RAM would be well-spent.