I have 1GB, but yes, all system tools are tiny. Browsers are heavy. Chrome was very light until some time ago, but now it is as heavy as Firefox.

Some webpages are use a hell lot of memory.

But there are big problems with webapps, too. For example, there are small apps that do super basic things and that can't be run on a Heroku free dyno. Mainly those written with Ruby on Rails, I guess -- like Discourse, and other small apps I've seen, but I've seen others.

Have a look at ublock vs adblock plus comparison featured yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11277135

2GB, really. I forgot I had upgraded my computer some months ago. I would probably be dead with 1GB.

Firefox most likely holds a lot of data, for various reasons.

Start a new instance with a clean profile. I doubt it will go over 100mb, probably less.

> Start a new instance with a clean profile.

Do you mean remove the .mozilla directory?

Not really, you just have to use the Profile Manager: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

But yeah, you could do it the hard way, by removing/renaming the .mozilla folder.

I need to try that, thank you.