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Hi, why is Firefox often using computer memory? And the large number of pages, Waterfox opens one page and does not take much memory

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Hi, why is Firefox often using computer memory? And the large number of pages, Waterfox opens one page and does not take much memory

Hi, why is Firefox often using computer memory? And the large number of pages, Waterfox opens one page and does not take much memory
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FF by default runs on multiple processes so if you're running into an issue that crashes a tab you're not likely to lose all of them. however, you can turn this off by adjusting webgl.cgl.multithreaded in about:config

which should restrict it to a single process. As for the memory, most browsers use quite a bit, just through the process of keeping webpages going with all the junk they have nowadays, unfortunately.