Firefox can kill your load times

[SandWhale]

Just a heads up, when my friend plays with firefox tabs open in the background his game takes like 5 times longer to load. Close them and its instantly fixed. Not sure if anyone else has experienced similar.

[Mei]

Sounds like he doesnt have enough ram.

[pascal.difolco]

Don't think it's Firefox, but lack of RAM if you have many opened tabs and 16GB or less

[Zeek]

Originally posted by Mei:

Sounds like he doesnt have enough ram.

Yup.

[Toaster Maximus]

That sounds like a ram issue have Firefox open always its my main browser and never get that issue . Also how often does he reboot his system and clean browser history things can build up

Edit: Each tab open is a drag on the usage of ram but should be minor less you have low ram or like 30 tabs open all on heavy websites

[Siodog]

Are you playing a game or browsing the internet?

[Zeek]

Originally posted by Siodog:

Are you playing a game or browsing the internet?

Probably both.

Sometimes I'll have youtube going while I'm gaming.

[Evono]

Originally posted by pascal.difolco:

Don't think it's Firefox, but lack of RAM if you have many opened tabs and 16GB or less

Modern browsers sleep tabs now , if you dont have like 20 open actively playing videos they get slept taking nearly no ram.
i have atm 40 tabs open and my browser uses 1,2gb ram.

[SandWhale]

Originally posted by Mei:

Sounds like he doesnt have enough ram.

I dunno chrome takes up like 60% of my memory and I still load in fast.

[Eldi]

Originally posted by SandWhale:

Originally posted by Mei:

Sounds like he doesnt have enough ram.

I dunno chrome takes up like 60% of my memory and I still load in fast.

Do you have identical machines?

Does Firefox use the same amount of ram?

Are your tab counts the same?

Are you on the same websites?



Hopefully you understand now.

[Hieronymous]

It boggles my mind why people wont pay 50 bucks to get oodles of RAM.

[hsf_]

Originally posted by SandWhale:

Just a heads up, when my friend plays with firefox tabs open in the background his game takes like 5 times longer to load. Close them and its instantly fixed. Not sure if anyone else has experienced similar.

I recently switched from Firefox to Chrome because of performance issues with Firefox. It frequently caused problems while watching youtube videos and playing games. Crashes, fps drops and it kept causing my discord to ♥♥♥♥ its self.

I switched to Chrome and all those problems went away.

Originally posted by Hieronymous:

It boggles my mind why people wont pay 50 bucks to get oodles of RAM.

RAM is a funny one, the price fluctuates a lot. Right now you can pick up 64GB of Corsair Vengence DDR4 at 3600mhz for £170, which isn't too bad. A couple of months ago it was over £200.

[Velber]

Originally posted by Siodog:

Are you playing a game or browsing the internet?

i have 50 tabs open in chrome looking up or marking a nexus mod for 5 different games, then the 3 i use to search things

[Supay]

Originally posted by Pseudomonarchiadaiymo:

Originally posted by Siodog:

Are you playing a game or browsing the internet?

i have 50 tabs open in chrome looking up or marking a nexus mod for 5 different games, then the 3 i use to search things

Chrome is a horrible browser that has or had tons of memory leaks i stopped using it years ago because of that.

[Lokaror]

Firefox perfromace is going to vary from machine to machine just as chrome does. Firefox works much better on my computer than any other browser. Your buddy may wanna switch browsers or get more RAM

[Xanth™]

Originally posted by Evono:

i have atm 40 tabs open and my browser uses 1,2gb ram.

Thats a lot of ram for such a small amount of tabs open. I usually have like 200 tabs open in firefox and I'm below 800 mb of ram.