Why you SHOULD be using Firefox

Yea, i have/had about the same number of tabs open. Tried in troubleshooting mode and still get the same so IDK.

I'll have to park it for now as if the link didn't give it away I'm struggling to get Windows OOBE to apply a different colour.
 
Just thought I'd post an update as i (is it just me?) always like it when people do that. It seems the ol' have you tried turning if off and back on again sorted the issue. :o
 
If you're like me and have loads of tabs open whilst gaming you will find that the comp runs far better is you disable hardware acceleration in firefox settings, otherwise it will use up a lot of your gpu resources - memory and cores
 
Not any more. Firefox as per this latest update parks the background process for every tab in Windows 11 using the eco power status.
 
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rumple9 said:
If you're like me and have loads of tabs open whilst gaming you will find that the comp runs far better is you disable hardware acceleration in firefox settings, otherwise it will use up a lot of your gpu resources - memory and cores
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I've not had a problem with that - however the one back from the latest version (not sure which version as I updated before checking) was suffering massive memory leaks for me with tabs slowly increasing to using around 3GB of RAM each at which games were stuttery and Windows complaining - which was also chewing up the GPU - hopefully latest version fixes it as I've not had it before.

EDIT: Even latest version seems to be using large amounts of RAM - though not run away memory leaks so far.
 
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Was previously a Chrome user but i had a strange issue where my PC would randomly freeze up and only solution was to shutdown via power button, switched to Firefox and problem gone. Firefox isn't too bad though, managed to get nearly all my Chrome extensions and a few alternatives.
 
nazhus said:
Was previously a Chrome user but i had a strange issue where my PC would randomly freeze up and only solution was to shutdown via power button, switched to Firefox and problem gone. Firefox isn't too bad though, managed to get nearly all my Chrome extensions and a few alternatives.
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Quite likely an incompatibility between multiple programs/apps that use hardware accelerated rendering - there was a time where if I had both Spotify and Firefox running with hardware acceleration enabled it would cause some stutter if I started using a 3rd program which used hardware acceleration features.
 
Rroff said:
Quite likely an incompatibility between multiple programs/apps that use hardware accelerated rendering - there was a time where if I had both Spotify and Firefox running with hardware acceleration enabled it would cause some stutter if I started using a 3rd program which used hardware acceleration features.
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Thanks, will have to check that out.
 
Still getting at times absurdly high RAM usage with 108.1 - often twice as much as it was using previously before 105 though so far haven't had memory leaks reoccur.
 
No problem here, only using 300Mb but IIRC you've said in the past that you're a little tab happy. :)

Didn't they introduce a tab sleeping thing a while ago? I didn't pay much attention to it at the time but i thought it was like how Windows backgrounds some programs, showing up in taskmanager with a green leaf next to them.

e: Oh...I just looked into it and it's not a green leaf thing, it actually 'unloads' the tab leaving a blank tab that reloads when clicking back to it.
 
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No problem here, only using 300Mb but IIRC you've said in the past that you're a little tab happy. :)

Didn't they introduce a tab sleeping thing a while ago? I didn't pay much attention to it at the time but i thought it was like how Windows backgrounds some programs, showing up in taskmanager with a green leaf next to them.

e: Oh...I just looked into it and it's not a green leaf thing, it actually 'unloads' the tab leaving a blank tab that reloads when clicking back to it.
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Currently using 4126MB with mostly my normal kind of use - I'm a little tab happy but nothing exceptional. In the past it would have been around 2-2.5GB.

Firefox's built in memory diagnostics also seems somewhat at odds with the system reported usage.

EDIT: Mirroring sessions (more or less) between one of my laptops which is on 99.0 and my desktop on 108.0.1 one is using 1574MB and the other 2658MB (I closed a few tabs compared to the 4126MB above).
 
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I've always found about:memory difficult to read, have you tried about: processes

That second about: shouldn't have a space, the forum thought i was posting this :p
 
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Murphy said:
I've always found about:memory difficult to read, have you tried about: processes

That second about: shouldn't have a space, the forum thought i was posting this :p
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I've used both - but Firefox's internal memory readings seem a bit out compared to what Windows thinks it is using.
 
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