Not sure why Firefox is taking too much resources. It's just one tab with gmail login page. And only one add-on is active (AdBlock Plus). Guess it's time to switch to chrome.

Extensions maybe. I had the same issue till I removed some unused extensions

Same happened to me recently. Because of the high CPU usage I switched to Chrome. Happy ever since.

Yeah, like most point out here, if you dont mind having privacy, use Chrome

Chrome is faster, but will eat 1.5X the RAM

@iNCEPTiON nope, there are no extensions.

@runfrodorun RAM is not the only issue. It takes too much time to launch, even though I have SSD, i5 and 8GB RAM. And then once I enter the URL, it becomes unresponsive for a minute or two before loading the page. Chrome launches instantaneously and eats less RAM compared to Firefox. But I don't want to use it because of privacy concerns.

@Jop- my machine is upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Firefox 64bit wasn't available back then when I was using Win 7. I didn't bother to switch to 64bit. Doing it now.

@codepoet I have core i5, SSD, 4gb ram, chrome is faster but more takes ram. After the creators update, the system has gotten slower and whenever resuming from (screen saver/screen off after 1 min idle) it hangs up for a few secs before showing the desktop.

I'll be doing a system restore to roll it before the creators update. No useful shit in there for me to use.

@GrizzlyMagnum yeah, my machine was silky smooth before the anniversary update. Anniversary update increased boot up time by tri fold. But creators update really did a number on overall performance. Applications now take much time to launch and BSoD is becoming very common.

firefox is the worst performing browser on all platforms. its shit. fastest browser is safari on mac. guess what i use.

Update to Firefox 57, remove adblock plus and use uBlock Origin, way much lighter. And before you install FF, remove it so it will install the x64 version.

Hey, come over to vivaldi. It is chromium based. You will love it.

get firefox quantum instead of spyw- i mean chrome

@ChrisHilo I totally support removing adblock and yes, ublock origin is the one.

@CozyPlanes I had used vivaldi for some time but it had some issues which drove me nuts. Sometimes i had to press middle click 3 times before closing a tab, some websites were not available due to the user agent, scrolling was hanging sometimes.

You know what
If you have an unlimited connection and some space in your HDD just download and try it

I like Vivaldi. It's nice, it's chrome, looks beautiful, has decent dev tools, what else do you want?

One user here recommend me an open source browser but I forgot to bookmark the link and I cant go back to that comment here to that point

It was after I was saying that I at the bear minium have always open around 100 tabs so my ram consuption is wicked high in my 8gb of ram and I dont use Firefox since I left it when chrome appear it

vivaldi or opera

It because google tracks every movement