Use less memory

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In this topic I posted 7 years ago, I wrote:

@bit

Firefox 65 features an improved “about:performance” page. In it, you can see approximately how much memory an extension is using.

To my surprise, the bitwarden browser extension is occupying upwards of 25MB of RAM when just a couple hundred small items are present in it’s database (no attachments or long strings).

Can this be optimized to be lower?

Note that if the tradeoff involves speed vs. memory use, I would generally prefer speed (within reason, of course).

BTW, after the browser is open for 5 minutes or so, I noticed bitwarden’s memory use drops to about 18MB. Still quite high, but notably lower than 25MB.

Over the last 7 years, that post never resulted in any action by the BitWarden team, and was recently closed as “stale”.

Firefox is now at v149, and the correct URL to observe extension memory use is now about:memory.

Will someone on the BitWarden team please take a look at why BitWarden uses so much RAM, and if something can be done to reduce this amount? As I mentioned years ago, please prioritize performance, within reason.