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48 processes running, 75% of my memory just being use and I'm only on the home page

thess100
Making moves

Something in your systems is using everything it can.  90% of the time, if I kill Firefox and try to start it again, it starts to load 6 to 12 processes and just sits in neverland!  If I wait 20 minutes or so, the yahoo home page finally shows up!

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siffemcon
Familiar face

Multiple processes is normal.

Open a new tab and via the address bar, go to about:memory

- click Verbose, then click Measure and save

- attach the memory report to a new [bug](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided).

- also paste your about:support info to your bug

hmijail
Making moves

I'm seeing 120 Firefox processes. It's using so much memory that paging causes kernel process to use about 200% CPU all the time. Of course, this is a battery killer.

I would do the about:memory measuring thing, but I am in 139.0b5 and the current version is 139, so would it be useful?
The memory buildup / hemorrhaging only happens after some time (some days), so it's not practical to hope to have it in the latest available version. So what to do?

hmijail
Making moves

Additionally, when I click Measure in about:memory, an error message appears on top, in red:

WARNING: the following values are negative or unreasonably large.

ac2d-texture-memory

This indicates a defect in one or more memory reporters. The invalid values are highlighted.