On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 19:40 +0000, piorunz wrote: > On 30/10/2023 18:56, Van Snyder wrote: > > Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have > > memoryleaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt- > > F4, but with"kill -9", so that it reopens everything when I restart > > it, my memoryusage immediately drops by 75%. Then it creeps back > > up. > > Firefox doesn't have any memory leaks. It actively uses buffers, > cache,filling available memory. I have Firefox running for days, > sometimesweeks. On slow laptop, and fast workstation PC. Same result, > no crashes,no memory leaks.
Then why does it use 1/3 as much memory to display the same pages and tabs when I kill it and restart it? That's a symptom of memory leakage. > --With kindest regards, Piotr. > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ > https://www.debian.org/ > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
