How can I fix a sudden and drastic increase in memory usage?

Before we begin, I have slight issues since the middle of last year, but I thought nothing of it. Commissioning using a good part of the memory of Firefox was normal, and I could launch alongside my other programs very well. However, there are about 3 or 4 days Firefox started to peak in the use of memory, to the point where it slows down my entire computer down, will not load pages and it is usually a mess. I always make her close, too, because whenever I close it classically, it is always open in the background. I had the problem of a few months back, but it was never a big problem until lately. I thought, at first, it was the result of some programs that installed as part of another program installation. I had no problem with the installer, considering that it comes from a forum trust for game design official theme, by a veteran member. However, he installed several toolbars and multiple programs. I went through all of the registry of them, my cleared them, uninstalled, everything was gone. However, this problem of memory made its ugly resurgence later. I uninstalled, reinstalled. Did not work. I tried to reset firefox, but it remained open in the background, and I couldn't reset it. I disabled my addons (those that I use it for over a year now), nothing. I tried to open Firefox with all the addons disabled, but it remained open in the background and refused to reopen correctly. I'm actually on another browser right now because Firefox no longer works for much... I also put a few attachments until you see the increase in question. It starts at about 270 000 K (although the screenshot shows approximately 312 000), then after about 4 or 5 minutes on my site, shoots up to more than 1,000,000 and it basically stops working. If anyone has any additional steps they think I could take, I'd appreciate it.

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/tools > Modules > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is the cause of the problem.

  • Put yourself in the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/tools > Modules > appearance
  • Do NOT click on the reset button on the startup window Mode safe

Start the computer in Mode safe mode with network support Windows (on the startup screen, press F8) as a test.

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