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Firefox eating a lot of RAM (8GB out of 12 GB)

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SiRHOSEven
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I love firefox but I just can't accept this. It eats a lot of RAM though before when I open at least 7 tabs, it only eats 2-3 GB of RAM. How to solved this?

I love firefox but I just can't accept this. It eats a lot of RAM though before when I open at least 7 tabs, it only eats 2-3 GB of RAM. How to solved this?
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WestEnd
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What bit version of FF was it before the update? And now what is the bit version for the current FF?

SiRHOSEven
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What bit version of FF was it before the update? - I don't know since I didn't check it because it has no problem before.

And now what is the bit version for the current FF? - It says 58.0(64 bit)

SiRHOSEven
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Meanwhile on Google Chrome with 33 Tabs open. Only ~3 GB memory used,

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