since this new flower design, firefox consumes much more memory (i find my firefox jumping on above 500.000!!) when on memrise/review-planting. I wonder what scripts/whatevers are running when memrising, without the user being able to see them. I made a fresh new install of firefox after noticing the huge amount of resources memrise is using; i have only 3! add-ons installed, ublock, no script and stylish. I’ve tried plaing with the multiprocessing in firefox, the result the same, so I reverted to a single process…
it is also bumpy, it freezes in the middle of answering for a couple of seconds. I have no idea what youve done to the scripts, dear team, but before the new flower never had such problems
You can try adding this custom filter to uBlock to get rid of the flower:
www.memrise.com##.js-plant-ico.ico-growth > svg
At least it works for me.
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gracias, I’ll add it… now the last thing of the memrise I knew is gone… 
(btw I am in the process of migrating to linux, you have any idea if one can thinker there the firefox for using memrise…i.e.installing the sripts that make memrise usable? here speaks a normal user who did not even touch a linux in more than 10 years, in fact i don’t remember a bloody thing)
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De nada…
As for linux, there is no problem customizing Firefox to your taste. I’ve been using it with Memrise for years. Firefox is perfectly up to date, and behaves in the same way with linux as it does in other systems, and you can install whatever add-ons you wish, noscript, ublock, tampermonkey, etc…
If you prefer chromium or palemoon, you can install them too, with no drama.
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nee, I will take firefox or a fork… I don’t know how to tweak another browser (and edge and chrome don’t hold any appeal, to me). Thanks for letting me know
too much change at once is already something… with one single interruption in favour of Mac, and another one in fav of BeOs, I’ve been a windows person since childhood… that means, more than 20 years sailing with windows … pfui, it’s more than enough
hm, with the new flower disabled or not, the resources that memrise cosumes now are huge… i can watch a very hd movie with half of the resources memrise is taking
what is happening?
Only when on Memrise and only when review-planting? (btw: do you mean review or planting or both?)
With me, any browser always takes a few 100 MB minimum, and then rises when the number open tabs increases and there scripts. So 500 MB doesn’t sound that strange to me.
My chrome (Win10) has 16 processes open, with over 1GB memory (but not all is used). It has always been that way…
yes, only when I use memrise,
(I don’t practice many tabs opened… ; when I memrise, I memrise… 
I keep only some Jap/Chinese dictionaries opened when learning new items or editing my courses, and eventually the forum)
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I’ve done some investigation using Firefox’s developer tools for analyzing memory usage.
The problem seems to be that Memrise’s code is very sloppy. When reviewing items, the code just keeps on allocating new objects continuously, and never disposes of them when they are unneeded. For example, at the start of a reviewing session, 6MB of memory are used. After reviewing 12 items in one level, 72MB are used, and it just keeps on increasing as I continue reviewing additional levels. I am doing text based reviews only, and I have listening tests disabled. I imagine that the memory situation is even worse for the people who have audio tests enabled and use video in the meet the natives section.
Obviously, the Memrise code shouldn’t behave this way, but it does. The only solution I’ve found so far is to close the Memrise tab periodically after doing a few levels, to purge the memory and keep it from getting out of control.
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try the old fashioned but fully functional RamBack - if you don’t use quantum (I don’t, that quantum seems a disaster to me). Like this you don’t have to close the tabs, but of course works better that way. I have the about:memory saved as bookmark as well, lately…
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Thanks for the tip about RamBack, but it’s not an option for me, because I do use the latest version of Firefox quantum. So I’ll just have to keep on closing the tab periodically.
FF Quantum isn’t terrible, but I enjoy using each new version of Firefox less and less, because they keep changing the UI, and removing settings and options, and generally taking away user choices, so we have to use extensions to get back to where we were before they made changes. I don’t like chromium much either, for the same reason - lack of user controls, because the developers insist we do things their way, because they think that they know what’s best for the users.
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does the team intend to do something about this?
for work related motives, i’ll be able starting around beginning- middle april to use probaly only a tablet or convertible laptop for a while…and definitely only the web version. Just to know if I have to drag around a extra hdd only for memrise, just in case…
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Perhaps ask @memrisesupport directly.
I wonder if Memrise can confirm whether it is an issue with the site or our individual webbrowser.
darn!
one single tab, one single window open, while reviewing a Chinese course with audio, memrise takes more than 900.000ram, the firefox freezes or behaves strange and whole show follows suit… around 300.000 for watching the latest Tsui Hark in HD (Chinese director/producer known for his camera/effects etc)
beside the relatively old laptops im using for memrise (nontheless all of them at least 4GB ram), i’ve tried for a while a brand new one I’m using for work (>8GB, processor of the 8th generation etc)
but! the same results, memrise is gulping resources, you’d think memrise is a black hole; I took fast memrise out, as work and memrise never go together
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Hi @Hydroptere
Are you on a Windows system? If so, do you know about audiodg bug? It drained my laptop battery in a couple of hours until I had a look around the system to see what was happening. It ran my CPU up to over 90% as well. If you are on Windows, you might want to have a look at sysconfig to see if audiodg.exe is consuming a lot of memory.
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p.s. You also might be interested in the Opera browser. I use it on my android phone, tablet and Linux systems. The company is based in Norway.
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hmmm, I don’t have that bug, and memrise is the only site giving me such problems. My CPU does not run to 90% when on memrise (max 24%), but the RAM gets drained
as for opera, is not what is used to be… sorry to say, but became a Datenkrake/bigdatabrother like any other browser (and much worse then firefox or forks of firefox)
Thanks for your time, I mean it!
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Sorry that didn’t help–have you heard anything about Vivaldi? Is that a datenkrake too?
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i’ve tried some 3 browsers… the problem persist (plus, memrise seems scripted only for chrome and firefox), and only on memrise!
does the team intend to address this issue? thanks