Possibly related:

screen shot of memory usage by app, showing Firefox using over 18GB of RAM

I also don’t understand why every chat app needs 1GB of RAM to itself.

      • Owl@mander.xyz
        11·
        17 天前

        Then it’s just a bug I guess

        Or someone is getting very rich in bitcoin right now

        • Dave@lemmy.nzOP
          13·
          17 天前

          Someone else pointed out cached RAM is shown as used in Linux, so Firefox is probably showing actual usage and the process list probably includes the RAM cached for Firefox.