htop shows firefox-esr-78.5.0_1,1 taking 27G VIRT memory. Is this not a bit too much ?
about:memory
in Firefox and run "Measure". Then investigate the result.The same with amazon, ebay...───1 (04.00%) ── Extension(id=google@search.mozilla.org, name="Google", baseURL=moz-extension://ddc3b8e5-2b1d-47eb-9b1c-96153b8a07c8/)
Those are the default one-click search engines built into firefox. I don't think you can remove those entirely, however I managed to remove those extensions using enterprise policies in firefox-esr. But as soon as you click the "Restore default search engines" button in settings those will reappear, just to be deleted again by the policy on next restart.I do not use google search years and it is removed from search engines settingsbut it is still there and taking some memory:
The same with amazon, ebay...
How to "real" removed those search engines, please?
Thank you.
{
"policies":
{
"ExtensionSettings":
{
"amazondotcom@search.mozilla.org": { "installation_mode": "blocked" },
"bing@search.mozilla.org": { "installation_mode": "blocked" },
"ddg@search.mozilla.org": { "installation_mode": "blocked" },
"ebay@search.mozilla.org": { "installation_mode": "blocked" },
"google@search.mozilla.org": { "installation_mode": "blocked" },
"wikipedia@search.mozilla.org": { "installation_mode": "blocked" }
}
}
}
I do not use google search years and it is removed from search engines settingsbut it is still there and taking some memory:
about:config
: false
about:config
: browser.search.defaultenginename about:config
: browser.safebrowsing.provider.* about:config
: false