Selenium using too much RAM with Firefox

Question

I am using selenium with Firefox to automate some tasks on Instagram. It basically goes back and forth between user profiles and notifications page and does tasks based on w

Answer 1

Well, This the serious problem I've been going through for some days. But I have found the solution. You can add some flags to optimize your memory usage.

options = Options()
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.add_argument("disable-infobars")
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-application-cache')
options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")

These are the flags I added. Before I added the flags RAM usage kept increasing after it crosses 4GB (8GB my machine) my machine stuck. after I added these flags memory usage didn't cross 50MB. And as DebanjanB answers, if you running for loop or while loop tries to put some seconds sleep after each execution it will give some time to kill the unused thread.