MyBB Memory Leak?

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Often times I'll leave Firefox run for weeks at a time. Every now and then I'll get up in the morning to notice Task Manager showing FireFox using over 4GB of RAM and climbing.

Unless you have a dire need to leave your computer on for much longer than a few hours at a time -- as in running your own business -- you should not do this with any web browser. People do all sorts of crazy things and also believe a single Linux distribution constructed in a certain way would make them safe from being spied on. The privacy ends the moment the user opens some web page inside a web browser. The browser does other things to indicate the mission of the creator. Is Mozilla making any money out of creating Firefox? Does it come from the users? So it has to generate it from somewhere. It's pathetic but true.

I use Firefox AppImage, do not rely well on "standard installed" versions on Linux because usually they are crap, on Debian "stable" it has to be ESR which I don't prefer. I have it at medium strength with ad-blocking and that stuff, and clear cookies and history at program exit. And I'm regularly getting out of the program and back in again. Because I have a slow, unpredictable Internet connection and I don't like many megabytes of junk loaded into my hard disk that might hinder me later.

I wish I didn't have to rely on any extensions but I do have UBlock Origin enabled. But that seems to want 100MB at least of information.