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I stopped using FireFox recently as I was getting a bit fed up with it freezing and/or running at very high CPU utilisation and memory levels. I will miss the
by bdfh42 17y ago
I stopped using FireFox recently as I was getting a bit fed up with it freezing and/or running at very high CPU utilisation and memory levels.
I will miss the "add in" support infrastructure but for the moment it is Google Chrome for general browsing.
- tseabrooks 17y agoUltimately, I had to stop using FireFox because of these types of issues. I'd leave a few tabs open for a couple hours and find firefox at over a gig of memory use making everything run extremely slow. I don't have this problem with Chrome so I use Chrome.
- robin_reala 17y agoTrouble is, it’s usually add-ons in the first place that are causing these issues. I recently uninstalled Invisible Hand and noticed an immediate improvement in speed for example.
- tseabrooks 17y agoThat's what I thought. I tried removing various plug-ins to figure out which one was the problem. I got down to only having ad-block enabled and I didn't want to disable it.
- robin_reala 17y agoFair enough. At that point I usually recommend trying a new profile, but honestly a jump to Chrome is probably going to be more of a performance benefit at the moment.