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Firefox Becomes the New Chrome As Users Complain of Huge Memory Usage

Mozilla Firefox has long been considered the main alternative to Google Chrome, with many praising its low resource usage, but it looks like everything has changed in the latest update for the browser.

The new Firefox has become quite a memory hog, users now complain, with a thread on reddit indicating that Mozilla’s browser eats up much more RAM than Google Chrome.

While this is something that nobody would have imagined a couple of years ago, users complain that Firefox can sometimes even crash systems with a limited amount of RAM due to this increased resource usage.

Feedback needed

“You are not the only one affected by this. I've even started to face sluggish behaviour with 2 or 3 tabs where Chrome keeps the sanity. I have a PC with 4GB RAM and the impact is visible. Multiple users including myself reported this issue. Currently waiting for devs to ad... (read more)

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