What makes Firefox a "Memory Killer"?

From Firefox 41 to Firefox 29, Firefox has struggled to reduce its system resource footprint, especially in memory footprint control. But there are still a lot of users complain that Firefox consumes large memory, or even call it "memory killer." Does Firefox really have such a big ability?

In recent days, Mozilla's official blog has revealed the truth about the Big memory footprint of Firefox. Originally, the Real "memory monster" was an ad interception extension (ABP). ABP, or Adblock Plus, is a very popular advertising interception extension, with a total of 190 million mass user groups.

Although ABP brings refreshing Internet experience, it is becoming a memory consuming monster itself.

Mozilla also introduced the official blog, such as on the 64 platform to open the ABP ad interception function, the Firefox extension will occupy 60 to 70MB of memory, which is mainly used to handle additional JavaScript script tasks.

If you visit a website techcrunch: not open ABP, Firefox Firefox only occupy 194MB of physical memory, after the opening of ABP, Firefox memory footprint quickly doubled, reached 417MB. Because ABP needs to query the IFRAME pages in each page, more physical memory resources are required.

Mozilla officials also cite one of the most typical examples.

For example, when you visit a Web page that contains more than 400 iframes, Firefox takes up 370MB, and when ABP is enabled, Firefox's memory footprint is soaring to 1960MB, taking up almost 2G of physical memory and slowing down the speed of Web page loading.

So, if the next time someone complains that Firefox is hogging memory and memory killers, ask them if they have an Ad shield extension tool installed.

If you have a large memory, you can continue to open the AD interception function, if you have limited physical memory, the recommended disable Flash features, the same can be achieved to screen ads, reduce the effectiveness of Firefox browser memory.

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