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FireFox taking so much memory and cpu and heating up my MacBook pro

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I am using FF quantum latest version which is 59.0.1and it is using my half of Ram and Cpu Usage is 200% above and heating my MacBook Pro

Macbook specs are 8GB ram i7 processor 2013 early running on MAC OS 10.13.13

I am using FF quantum latest version which is 59.0.1and it is using my half of Ram and Cpu Usage is 200% above and heating my MacBook Pro Macbook specs are 8GB ram i7 processor 2013 early running on MAC OS 10.13.13

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nomimalik
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Here Are some screenshots and I am using only 2 tabs one is facebook and second one is youtube on which nothing is being played.

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Please make sure that Accessibility Services are checked to Block and as navigation for your browser : http://kb.mozillazine.org/Menu_differences_in_Windows,_Linux,_and_Mac for Windows Direction below. and to make changes here : You could try this please : Go the 3 Bar Menu then Options --> General --> Performance and untick everything. change the recommended size lower then see how it runs. Note: 1 = No Multiprocessor = slow again. Try 2 Restart Firefox after making these changes please.

Note : Acceleration is for your Video Card, monitor to see if need to turn back on. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/performance-settings Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance

nomimalik
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It surely reduced RAM Usage but CPU usage is above 200 and almost 300 %