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Re: "I don't know why, but ever since switching to Firefox a few..."
I use librewolf, bug all firefox derivatives use a huge amount of memory, start a lot of processes, and generally pollute the system. I am at a loss as to what to do about browsing, especially for high-consequence browsing for banking, medical, investment, etc. I have to keep a vulnerable browser with no security for banking, since banks reject more secure browsers and don't work when when I filter dozens of tracking bugs that infest their pages...
Dec 04 · 3 weeks ago
🚀 Minko_Ikana · Dec 05 at 00:46:
"I have to keep a vulnerable browser with no security for banking, since banks reject more secure browsers and don't work when when I filter dozens of tracking bugs that infest their pages..."
Yes I hate that. They make me go change all my settings, and then go set them all back after I am done playing with their system. It defeats the purpose, I don't want my data in their database either in case they themselves get hacked. They make us more vulnerable by making us drop security. What about leaks between them and us?
Thank you for sharing... :)
I don't know why, but ever since switching to Firefox a few months ago, it has been using significantly more ram than Chrome/Edge and so over time it ends up lagging out my whole system. I've switched back to Edge because of this. Something weird is going on with Firefox recently, almost like there's a memory leak or something. Does anyone know anything about this?