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Firefox memory ballooning
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Hello /r/Firefox, I was hoping you could help me troubleshoot what's going on with some abnormally high memory usage. I did a random check today and noticed Firefox's processes were using a combined ~4.6 GB of memory. (Screenshot). I poked around about:memory and noted this:

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2.4 GB in "heap-unclassified." I made the switch to multiprocess pretty late; before that Firefox would always hover around between 1.3-2 GB of memory. I did a small test consisting of enabling one-by-one my add-ons and chalked up that high typical usage to a combination of RES and Tab Tree, though I was wondering if this was abnormal as well. Since the switch to multiprocess, however, each process typically uses >1 GB of memory. A whopping 3.4 is pretty crazy though. Tonight I plan to restart with Add-ons disabled to see if that clears anything up, but otherwise is there anywhere to go from here?

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  • Firefox 55.0.3
  • macOS 10.12.6

Add-ons:

  • Better Reader
  • Decentraleyes
  • Download Star
  • NoScript
  • Reddit Enhancement Suite
  • Tab Tree
  • uBlock Origin
  • uMatrix

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