I’m all for people using Firefox instead of Chrome, but RAM being used up shouldn’t be a complaint unless something else needs that RAM. If it’s there, it should be considered usable.
FF Evangelists
Submitted 11 months ago by morrowind@lemmy.ml to [deleted]
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Veedem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
brap@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yep, I didn’t buy that RAM to sit being unused.
xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
It’s specifically about the efficiency of the usage. If it’s not used effectively, then it really is a waste.
And we all know how efficient the Web is nowadays…
fidodo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If it did a good job freeing it up when needed then sure, but it doesn’t.
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 11 months ago
hot take lol
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Should” is doing a lot of heavy lifting
lucas@fitt.au 11 months ago
citrusface@lemmy.world 11 months ago
they’re right tho
dojan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah. Use Firefox or kiss a free Internet goodbye.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 11 months ago
I worry even Firefox is losing its principles on the matter.
exscape@kbin.social 11 months ago
I'm never giving it up out of principle, but I dunno about the RAM usage. Firefox was above 7GB last I looked. I have RAM to spare though, so I don't really care.
Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
There’s a Tab Discarder extension that suspends old tabs so they’re stored on the drive rather than ram.
NightAuthor@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Damn… is this why I feel so empty inside? I’m using Firefox but no tail plug or furry action?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean if all you need is a cork to stop feeling empty
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah tailplugs are awesome
umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
do you have time to hear about our lord and savior Firefox with Ublock Origin?
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
+sponsorblock +youtube dislike
Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Noscript. Fuck your website and all your fancy functionality.
I want to see static on my screen when I visit.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I don’t need sponsorblock as piped automatically skips sponsor segments :^)
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Adnauseum
umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
isnt that the one that clicks on ALL the ads so they have a harder time profiling you?
the scriptures allow for this one on sundays, but dont tell the orthodox traditionalists.
JunglisticFunkateer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Firefox + Ublock Origin + Sidebery + vertical CSS theme + Containers
Gigan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Firefox uses lots of RAM
cm0002@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And not very efficiently either, can’t seem to handle 99+ tabs and starts getting unstable as you get closer to that number.
Chrome at least can handle 300-600 tabs across 30 windows (The most I’ve ever pushed it) without breaking a sweat
SkyeHarith@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think you have a tab problem.
I suggest you try out a 12 step program. Tabaholics Anonymous works.
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Are you the guy that posted on the Microsoft forums about Edge crashing after 1600 open tabs?
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And I thought I was a monster with 50 tabs.
Deebster@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Oh whoops, I should close some windows, because I currently have 623 open tabs in Firefox across 107 windows. It’s working fine, even with all my plugins running. Firefox is good at unloading dormant tabs.
Ibaudia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What could you possibly be doing with 600 tabs??
Discover5164@lemm.ee 11 months ago
i run it at 500avg, it’s perfectly fine
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Well, I HATE having many tabs open. Just bookmark them for later. So far, FF is friendlier with how I go whereas the last times I tried Chrome, it often allocates RAM at launch for a thousand tabs that will never exist (hyperbole but you get it)
Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I am not sure what you can possibly expect of any program. That is absurd.
nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 11 months ago
Yep, I use Firefox for the idea, but let’s stop kidding ourselves that it is in any way memory efficient or fast
DenizEfe@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Best thing about Firefox is stability somehow it works nearly all devices
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So for some reason Firefox doesn’t work most of the time on my parent’s ISP. It simply doesn’t find sites 80% of the time. I can take the same wifi adapter and move it to my place and it works fine. I’ve messed arounfld with different DNS and stuff, and I just can’t get it to be reliable there.
It’s super annoying.
SubatomicSkeptic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It sounds like an issue with DNS-over-HTTPS. support.mozilla.org/…/firefox-dns-over-https Changing the DNS in the network settings of the operating system would not fix that.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
And other browsers work fine? That seems really weird.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 11 months ago
people don’t complain to get solutions, they complain so everyone knows how miserable they are
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
and to shame people into making a solution, hopefully.
Or at least that’s what we tell ourselves. Because it makes us feel better.
minibyte@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Sympathy for the devil.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
They should, might be in a better mood then…
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was at a party a few weeks ago and when we needed to use a web browser, one of the first things that happened was one of the attendees taking the computer to install FireFox.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I put in a tailplug and put on fox ears every time I use Firefox.
Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
“I’m so used to getting fucked by Chrome and Edge that I just feel like something’s missing if I don’t.”
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I actually got kicked out of school because I wouldn’t use internet explorer, but Firefox is still the best option. Always was.
Rodancoci@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Please elaborate, sounds like a crazy story.
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Both have anime profile pictures so both are losers
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
There already getting railed by google
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
where?
Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Been using Firefox for years. Still a stupid dumb human, no fur.
xavier666@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Wait, didn’t you all get the free furry butt-plug when you downloaded FF?
ArtVandalist@lemmus.org 11 months ago
I’ve been walking around with it “plugged in” for 20 years. I did try Ice Weasel once, but that was simply too cold for my sensitive insides.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Being a furry is a choice, not something that happens to you :) You’ve already taken the first steps
zyratoxx@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I am urging you both to install the Firefox Waifu Theme :3
Nanomerce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ngl, I’ve never had issues with either for ram. my experience with Firefox is mostly the sameas chrome with ram usage. The main reason Im on Firefox is cause it’s been a whole lot more stable for me than chrome.
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Also, adblockers still work.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If the majority of ram isn’t being utilized you either have a problem or have entirely to much ram. I’m not saying programs can’t be memory hogs, but they should utilize what resources are there to perform better. It would be like turning on a flash light, using all of the power and then covering half the bulb while trying to cross a field in the dark. The CPU and GPU use more electricity when running at higher percentages, ram is negligible for the most part.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
i always hear this but it’s obviously not true lol, if i ever see my ram reach max usage the computer shits itself and i’ll likely have to restart it because most things become utterly frozen
full RAM utilization is patently not something you want.
mstrk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s about the amount of tabs you keep open. Every site will take a piece of RAM and a max of 5Gb per tab if not mistaken.
I think GChrome has a feature now where it tries to “kill” the tabs you’re not using to mitigate this issue but it’s opt in.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I switched from Chrome to Firefox on my Mac desktop and the memory usage was cut in half at least. I only use it on my Linux notebook, so I have no idea about the memory usage difference there, but there was an unquestionable difference on the Mac. It has 16 gb of ram and is from 7 years ago, so it was before the M-chips and their ram hunger and still gave me memory warnings.
Now I never have memory issues on it. All it took was switching to Firefox.
So it definitely makes a difference on some systems.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Firefox users can very well be doing that and no one will know because Google is not spying on them through their browser.
pipows@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Kind of is. Part of Firefox revenue is from Google, who pays to have google as the default search engine
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just download more RAM
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Still takes 40%
Quackdoc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I will never not be upset at people who don’t realize how ram works
TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My Firefox is sitting happy eating about 30GB of RAM right now…
sag@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Komi can communicate??
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Firefox is for the weak.
Real men use NCSA Mosaic.
Holzkohlen@feddit.de 11 months ago
Just create more ram out of thin air with zram. I’ve got 60gb now. 30 something actual ram (some of my 32gb gets allocated for the APU) and the same amount as zram. I can run 2 chrome instances now!
RatBin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As for the last question, yes the murring and the tail thingy aren’t forbidden, to be clear.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 11 months ago
Do I want to know what "murring" is?
vinyl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Somebody knows a bit too much 😏
Agent641@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Furrfox
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
i just want a web browser that doesn’t cause me to have strokes, and doesn’t give me internet aids.
How fucking hard is it to write a piece of software jesus fucking christ.
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Orion > Firefox.
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
just use ungoogled chromium
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
brave doesn’t eat ram like that, not unless you have a lot going on at once.
Gemini24601@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My favorite part of Firefox is Ublock Origin.
BleakBluets@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Mine is the tail plug, but UO is a strong second.
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 11 months ago
Does the plug get sent to you automatically or do you have to register somewhere?
nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 11 months ago
Which is unavailable on Chrome?..
xe3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google is in the process of undermining the effectiveness of uBlock Origin and other adblockers on Chrome and other Chromium browsers.
But even before those changes were announced, uBlock Origin’s creator and main dev has stated that uBO is most capable on Firefox.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Does it work flawlessly on Android, iOS, and desktop? I’m really asking, because I ditched Chrome when it was less shitty than it currently is…
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
If it still works, I believe it has been neutered