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Firefox 141 Beta Lowering RAM Use On Linux But Still Benchmarking Behind Chrome


Following this week's release of Firefox 140, Firefox 141 was promoted to beta.

"On Linux Firefox uses less memory and no longer requires a forced restart after an update has been applied by a package manager." With this testing I was just looking at the single-tab/window impact for reproducibility while running various web browser benchmarks but that alone was enough to show a nice improvement over Firefox 140. This round of benchmarks were done on an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X desktop running Ubuntu 25.04 with the Linux 6.15 kernel and NVIDIA graphics.

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