Important Notice: We're experiencing email notification issues. If you've posted a question in the community forums recently, please check your profile manually for responses while we're working to fix this.

On Monday the 3rd of March, around 5pm UTC (9am PT) users may experience a brief period of downtime while one of our underlying services is under maintenance.

Avatar for Username

Rechercher dans l’assistance

Évitez les escroqueries à l’assistance. Nous ne vous demanderons jamais d’appeler ou d’envoyer un SMS à un numéro de téléphone ou de partager des informations personnelles. Veuillez signaler toute activité suspecte en utilisant l’option « Signaler un abus ».

En savoir plus

Ce sujet de discussion a été archivé. Veuillez poser une nouvelle question si vous avez besoin d’aide.

Firefox on Macbook M1 consumes infinite MEMORY due to a GIF on a webpage.

  • 2 réponses
  • 1 a ce problème
  • 8 vues
  • Dernière réponse par Bithiah

David
David
more options

Here is the entire video demonstrating the problem. Please observe carefully as I do a few intentional actions so as to exclude any other factors causing the problem.

PROBLEM: Whenever I use a webpage with an uploaded GIF, Firefox starts attempting to consume an INFINITE amount of MEMORY. First eating away RAM until eventually all of the available SWAP MEMORY from my SSD is also utilised. After having to force quit Firefox due to no more memory space, as anyone can imagine with over 50GB of Memory Swap employed, this can severly reduce the lifespace of my SSD in the long-run - something that's becoming a problem on multiple forums.

I have tried to create identical conditions for both Safari and Chrome, neither of which faced the same issue. One must assume that this is, sadly, a Firefox problem that I'm sure their reliable team will be able to resolve promptly.

[https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtNrv14LkZ7qgU_RzmgNPmxuR-i- Here] is the entire video demonstrating the problem. Please observe carefully as I do a few intentional actions so as to exclude any other factors causing the problem. PROBLEM: Whenever I use a webpage with an uploaded GIF, Firefox starts attempting to consume an INFINITE amount of MEMORY. First eating away RAM until eventually all of the available SWAP MEMORY from my SSD is also utilised. After having to force quit Firefox due to no more memory space, as anyone can imagine with over 50GB of Memory Swap employed, this can severly reduce the lifespace of my SSD in the long-run - something that's becoming a problem on multiple forums. I have tried to create identical conditions for both Safari and Chrome, neither of which faced the same issue. One must assume that this is, sadly, a Firefox problem that I'm sure their reliable team will be able to resolve promptly.

Toutes les réponses (2)

David
David Auteur de la question
more options

Screenshots.

I'm currently traveling via train so the internet is slow and causing the upload speed of the video to be slow. Bear with.

Bithiah
Bithiah
more options

Hey there!

See the following website on what to do to fix the performance issue:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-or-cpu-resources

Hope I helped!

Kind regards,

Bithiah