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That's not a lot. No one bats an eye when Firefox uses triple that amount sitting idle with 5 tabs open, because Firefox is Not Evil.

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Firefox can do a lot more than Teams can.

That's akin to saying a car is more impressive than a nuclear power station because it can go to such interesting places. Or something something apples and oranges. Point is, my analogy may be bad, but it's not as bad as comparing Firefox and Teams in terms of what they do.

I don't understand your point then.

Yes, the thing that consumes more resources uses more resources. Because it can do more things. People are also mad about that btw.

Saying "well, x uses more than y" where `y` in this case is using about 5x more resources than its contemporaries is just an insultingly weak argument.

So when you open 5 tabs in Firefox it uses over 1.5GB of memory?

I find that hard to believe.

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