The browser that has been fighting Google Chrome, called Mozilla Firefox , has been one of the browsers listed as one of the best, and has changed a lot during its existence. But many of the users have shown their dissatisfaction with the problem that they have always had, it consumes a lot of the necessary RAM of your computer.
The excessive RAM consumption that Firefox sometimes uses is a problem that has always been in the browser and for this reason many users have been abandoned and opting for another browser. Here we will be showing you the reason for this problem and how to solve it so that it stops consuming so much RAM from your browser.
Index( )
- What item is needed to check RAM usage in Firefox?
- How to check Firefox’s RAM usage?
- From the task manager
- from the plugins
- How to reduce Firefox’s RAM usage?
- With button Minimize memory usage
What item is needed to check RAM usage in Firefox?
It is clear that Firefox’s extensive use of RAM causes the browser itself to slow down, and not only this one, but the computer also tends to slow down when it becomes aware that the browser consumes a lot of RAM.
Items such as High Performance Pages make the browser slow down if it is on an old version or if the computer does not have adequate memory to navigate, also junk files such as history, cookies and cache slow down the browser.
How to check Firefox’s RAM usage?
But if you just want to keep an eye on how much RAM is consuming your Firefox browser and other applications on your computer, Windows has different ways of looking at the performance of memory and other components.
A high consumption is something that will always be in Firefox and will affect the computer, especially when a computer does not have a sufficient amount of memory to process the information. It is recommended to always have Firefox updated on your computer
From the task manager
To see the performance and see the consumption that Firefox makes in the memory of your computer, you must open the task manager. To do this, go to the start and type Task Manager and click on it to open it, an interface will be opened that will show several options.
In the performance tab we will see the RAM usage statistics , from there we can see the memory status and what are the programs that are open and how much they are consuming, right here we can finish a program or task or fix the consumption problem excessive memory that Firefox has.
from the plugins
In case the browser is consuming too much memory, you can install the about:addons-memory plugin to keep the RAM usage constantly on display. This will be showing you all the consumption statistics and browser add-ons.
In addition, here we can also stop what is causing the browser to be so slow and thus consuming a lot of memory, be it very heavy browser extensions, heavy content tabs or another problem that occurs
How to reduce Firefox’s RAM usage?
One way to reduce Firefox’s use of RAM is to be aware that if it is a browser extension that is causing the browser to consume too much memory.
When we are looking at the statistics of the points explained above, there we can see if one of the extensions causes this problem to increase, but clicking on the address bar and placing ‘about:addons’ will be disabling the heavier extensions.
In addition to uninstalling the extensions, we can update and modify the drivers of the video card, since this card shows and executes the visual with you of the browser , such as games, videos or web pages. Also, avoid extensive content that your browser cannot operate, such as online games, videos that are live on YouTube or other social networks.
With button Minimize memory usage
We can minimize the RAM usage of Firefox browser by using less tab as these tabs are stored in memory to be active.
Also, adding more RAM to the computer is also a good option, so you will be consuming the capacity of the previous memory and you will have more space on your computer to do other types of tasks since you have extra memory.
