Why is Firefox using so much memory for GPU processes?
Hi there, I have noticed that my Win11 Asus laptop is always short on RAM (16GB available), with Firefox taking up a significant amount even with only a few tabs open.
As you can see by the attached image, when I go to 'about:processes' it shows that GPU processes alone are taking up nearly 1GB of memory, with the only tab running being the 'about' page. I only have 6 extensions (uBlock Origin, Zotero, Containers etc) none of which are meant to be RAM intensive.
What are these GPU processes that are running, and how can I reduce the memory used by them?
Thank you.
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Note that it's about memory of your GPU chip, not about RAM. Devs are working on this under bug 1624261.
You can go to about:memory and click Minimize memory usage.