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Hello Figma community !

(I hope I’m posting this in the good categorie)


I’m working from home (yay covid you know) and I constantly have MS Teams, Figma and Firefox opened. I’ve been done with my computer (i7 8th gen, 16gb ddr4 ram, nvme ssd) lags and all the software freezing so I started searching the problem. I figured it out quickly : my ram was full (15,6 of 16 gb).


I rebooted the computer and softwares, and then my pc immediately started using 10GB.

Windows uses 5gb, Teams 1gb, Firefox 2gb (I’ve got a lot of tabs) and 2GB are immediately dedicated to Figma.




  1. Isn’t that big for Figma to use immediately 2GB** (i opened only one projects) after launching ? It goes to 4.5GB if I open 2 or 3 projects…


  2. Is that normal for Figma to use that amount of RAM or am I doing something wrong ?

  3. Do I need a better pc for that usage ?


I’m a student using figma for almost all of my works and buying a better computer is not an option for now.


What are your tips and pros about Figma RAM (and CPU) usage ?

Tell me 🙂 !

Same problem

same problem for me too in MacOS big sur.

Memory problems appear when trying to update the component library

I have a large number of nested components. There is no possibility to move the master components to another file - therefore it creates huge problems and prevents the optimisation of my design system.

Just wanted to bump this very old thread as this is still a problem. Freshly launched figma and already 15 gigs ram reserved for it. Havent moved a single pixel yet.


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Hi Corey


With time I found a solution that works for me (at least on Windows OS).


I didn’t thought Cleaner software would work (I consider them as scam) but it effectively wipes the temporary files pending for firefox and figma.


First, I shutdown figma and firefox

Second, I use a “Cleaner software”, CCleaner in my case, in order to clean “temporary files”

Third, I restart my computer

At this point, ram usages of figma and firefox became meaningless when I launch them.


Looks like figma is accumulating things and keeps loading them on ram unless you clean it manually.


This ritual works for me but I got no clues if it works on MacOS

There’s cache on macOS as well and it’s much space hogging compared to win. Just have to find a way to clean them though as I also think the same about cleaners heh. I’ll update here if it works 🙂


Thanks for your reply @Clement_Chartrain

Figma is consuming up to 8gigs of RAM on my 16gb Hp OMEN Laptop

I’m having using Figma since mids 2021 and now I have that problem… since a month or so…

I did the Ccleaner thing but didn’t work at all. Idk what to do to solve this problem. Figma consumes a lot of RAM that sometimes freeze my pc and I have to restart the system. I notice that this is not happening in Figma web, but I wan’t to use Figma for desktop.

I need some reply from Figma’s tech support…

I also have the same problem.

My computer has 16gb of RAM.

More and more often, figma consumes all my RAM and freezes my computer.

I have to quit figma and reopen it but sometimes even this doesn’t fix the issue.

I have been having this same issue for a couple of months now. Will getting a machine with 32GB RAM fix it? It makes figma crawl which makes is super hard to get my work done.

No 32gb wont fix, Figma just uses more memory.


Can confirm Figma has 47% of my ram - even with 32gb DDR5.

Continuing the discussion from Is figma consuming a lot of RAM for you too?:


Hey! I was working on the desktop Figma app, and it was super glitchy and laggy — I couldn’t get anything done. I opened Task Manager and saw that Figma had opened like 14 times on its own, just eating up all my memory. I switched to the browser version and everything’s fine now, but it’s a bummer because I actually liked the desktop app. :<

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