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		epmatsw on June 7, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S Serious question, why does that matter? If you've got a thousand tabs open, that's 700mb, or roughly 4% of your (probably) 16gb of memory. Why worry?

hacker42 on June 8, 2016 [–]

I have a pretty old machine without memory upgrade options. Of course, it would not be an issue on a machine with 16 GB. I've been following the bugs with tab-related memory and perf issues for quite a while, but maybe you are right that Moore's Law fixed them by now and I should upgrade.

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