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[–] candyman337 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love Firefox, but it's memory management leaves some to be desired lol

[–] LightProtector 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. It eats RAM like it’s nothing. I’m downgrading from 32GB to 16GB soon and I’m really worried.

[–] zaemz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Moving up from DDR4 to DDR5?

I bet you'll be alright! My laptop has 16GB DDR4 and Firefox works just peachy.

I wonder if Firefox has a method of giving up RAM when it doesn't need to hold onto it anymore?

[–] LightProtector 2 points 1 year ago

Nope, still DDR4 lol. My old RAM had some weird leaking issue where it caused my games to crash and I kept getting pissed off teammates and comp bans.

I installed the new RAM Corsair sent me with the old one for now, so now I’m running 4x8gb. Seems to be fine for now.