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Given how well web pages are coded, I'm curious whether a Firefox that's browsed to 50 static pages fares. At some point the pages themselves should get some blame (and yes, they can be offloaded, but we're back to balancing responsiveness & long term resource usage, and people are complaining about the pages being reloaded after exit as a delay)

Chrome recently added a setting so you can display a tab’s memory usage when you mouse over the tab. In Firefox, you can check the memory usage of each tab in Firefox’s Task Manager (about:processes).

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/task-manager-tabs-or-ex...

Or use the much more detailed about:memory, that's how I discovered the live leak.

So wouldn't chrome have the same issue?

I do have similar problems with chrome and have to restart it every few days.

And Safari on MacOS. It occasionally gets into a state where it becomes unresponsive to clicking on links.

I noticed a similar problem with Twitch client.