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> Gmail in Firefox uses 200MB or a bit more, while FastMail uses around 10MB.

Yes, but that’s not a fair apples to apples comparison with his 300mb number. Your looking at the memory used for that tab, not the shared memory used by the browser across tabs. Open Firefox with no sites open and check your baseline memory usage. Add that to the numbers above for a direct comparison.



I sought only to compare Gmail with FastMail, to indicate that Gmail is a poor baseline for memory comparisons.


Fair point, I agree there!




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