Thankfully there is a built in function to enable a view of how much memory separate parts of Firefox are using. There are plenty of monitors for showing how much memory Firefox is consuming as a whole, but not individual tabs.
#FIREFOX MEMORY MONITOR HOW TO#
Here we show you how to access this information for the most popular web browsers.Ī slight surprise about Firefox is despite the thousands of extensions you can add to your Firefox browser, we couldn’t actually find one that displayed the memory usage for a tab. Luckily, most modern browsers can tell you just how much memory an individual web page takes up in a tab, so you can identify and possibly close any offending pages. If you have several tabs open and you suspect one web page is misbehaving and taking more memory than it should, or you’re just curious to find out how light or heavy a page is, how do you find that out? Windows Task Manager really isn’t much good for this as it will just list the main processes for the browser.
Some users open dozens or even hundreds of tabs at once which can make the memory usage skyrocket. Modern web browsers use tabbed browsing and all web pages you open are displayed in the same window. Internet Explorer is lighter that those two, but can still become heavy with several websites open. Others like Google Chrome, while not having problems quite as serious, are certainly not memory friendly either. Mozilla Firefox for one has encountered several issues throughout its life relating to memory leaks and being a bit of a monster in the memory usage department at times.
All web browsers seem to have gotten much more power hungry over the years.
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