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Steps to reproduce:
I predict it's because of extensions I use, but I'm not sure:

  • Bitwarden - Free Password Manager (2022.8.0) [Firefox]
  • Dark Reader (4.9.64) [Chrome]
  • Google Translate (2.0.13) [Chrome]
  • Grammarly: Grammar Checker and Writing App (8.906.0) [Firefox]
  • uBlock Origin (1.48.0) [Firefox]
  • Wappalyzer - Technology profiler (6.10.63) [Firefox]
  • [DISABLED] MetaMask (10.25.0) [Firefox]

Expected behavior:
As advertised, it should only consume a tiny portion of memory, right?

Orion, OS version; hardware type:
Orion: Version 0.99.124.4.1-beta (WebKit 616.1.14.11.1)
OS: MacBook Pro (macOS Sonoma beta 14.0 beta build 23A5286g)
CPU: (8) arm64 Apple M2
Memory: 8.00 GB

Image/Video:
This happened when I wanted to make an Orion, Chrome, and Safari benchmark article. But it doesn't become a publishing because the results happen to be not good:

Most of the time it's good:

  • Vlad replied to this.
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      Generally speaking, the Orion team isn't responsible for the ram usage that may come from extensions. Can you test memory usage without any extensions loaded?

        ImBIOS Please test Orion with a clean new profile, without extensions and compare with Safari in similar circumstances (as both share the same rendering engine - WebKit). Adding extensions to the mix will start to measure memory use of extensions, which is probably what you do not want to do.

            I did extended test and found the memory problem might be caused by memory leak of some of the [Firefox] extensions. I think this feedback not valid anymore. We know JS popular of it's memory leakage.

            I can even run a dev server, using vscode, running rust-analyzer, in the same time browsing with Orion without problem. Sorry for the false positive.

            I think it's no need to do clean profile memory test anymore, I believe the memory usage will be lower or the same as Safari (max). I think when I encounter this again, I need to check each of my installed extensions, and report to the extension dev accordingly.

            • Vlad replied to this.

              ImBIOS Thanks for confirming.

              Can you reproduce a Firefox extension not leaking in Firefox but leaking in Orion - that would probably indicate a bug in our web extension API implementation. If so, we would be interested in taking a closer look (please make a new post for this).

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