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Firefox will use up a lot of memory as it is opened for a longer period of time

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I only opened 5 pages (fixed tabs), and only enabled two plug-ins, Proxy SwitchyOmega and AdGuard AdBlocker. The browser was always open, and the pages were static, and nothing was playing. The strange thing is that it didn't take up much memory at the beginning, but it took up more and more memory over time. Today the system got stuck and couldn't respond (it might be that the system used virtual memory).

I used the browser's task manager, which showed that the Shared Web Process memory of several pages was very high, some as high as 4G, and the GPU memory was also higher than before.

I think this is very strange. Why does the memory usage increase exponentially after the webpage has been there for a while?

My settings and usage habits have basically not changed. I didn't have this problem before, but it has appeared in the past six months. I have updated many versions, but the problem still exists. I have always used Firefox. If it continues like this, I will be very disappointed and have to make changes.

I only opened 5 pages (fixed tabs), and only enabled two plug-ins, Proxy SwitchyOmega and AdGuard AdBlocker. The browser was always open, and the pages were static, and nothing was playing. The strange thing is that it didn't take up much memory at the beginning, but it took up more and more memory over time. Today the system got stuck and couldn't respond (it might be that the system used virtual memory). I used the browser's task manager, which showed that the Shared Web Process memory of several pages was very high, some as high as 4G, and the GPU memory was also higher than before. I think this is very strange. Why does the memory usage increase exponentially after the webpage has been there for a while? My settings and usage habits have basically not changed. I didn't have this problem before, but it has appeared in the past six months. I have updated many versions, but the problem still exists. I have always used Firefox. If it continues like this, I will be very disappointed and have to make changes.
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TyDraniu said

Can you report it on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org and share the bug URL here? Thanks.

Thanks for the answer, the problem has been solved, it's an issue with the ADguard plugin

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Can you report it on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org and share the bug URL here? Thanks.

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TyDraniu said

Can you report it on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org and share the bug URL here? Thanks.

Thanks for the answer, the problem has been solved, it's an issue with the ADguard plugin

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When I disabled the adguard plugin, the constant memory growth disappeared

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