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this might be because: - its loading its own webkit/js lib - it might be multiprocecss (is it?)

I'm wondering how much firefox nightly uses on your phone



Look - as I said in my other comment, the issue isn't that it uses a tonne of memory. The stock browser does so too. The issue is that it is using that memory in such a way that it is evicted too late. The app is multi-process, but they're putting background services in the wrong process - they run in the main process that you'd expect to be heavy on memory usage. So instead of the memory-heavy UI stuff being evicted shortly after the UI goes away, it is evicted after all other background (multitasking) processes - including the launcher - have also gone away.

Note that my screenshot shows the active (i.e., not background processes that can be thrown away at any time) section of the running processes screen.




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