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clumsysmurf on June 9, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-b...

FF and Safari were the only browser that worked well on my 2009 MBP ... until FF went multi process, and then started using too much ram. Today I think its total ram usage is worse than Chrome.

Vinnl on June 10, 2019 | [–]

You could try setting it up to use fewer than 8 different processes?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/performance-settings

agumonkey on June 9, 2019 | [–]

Memory usage used to be a lot better than chrome, but I'm under linux, maybe on macos it's different, also I stopped caring about it so maybe it got worse.

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