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Wow, that's really unfortunate. I just built a new PC with SSDs, and switched back to Firefox. Even with 16GB of RAM on an i3-2120, Firefox still hiccups and l

Wow, that's really unfortunate. I just built a new PC with SSDs, and switched back to Firefox. Even with 16GB of RAM on an i3-2120, Firefox still hiccups and lags when I open new tabs or try to scroll. This new issue of it prematurely wearing out my SSDs will just push me to Chrome. Hopefully it doesn't have the same issues.

overcast 10y ago
You need to enable multiprocess in Firefox, so the thing doesn't shit the bed on you constantly. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
- theandrewbailey 10y ago
  Look out for addons. Electrolysis will still not work with many of them. I force enabled it a few weeks ago, and discovered that it's disabled for good reasons.
  - overcast 10y ago
    Have about ten plugins, no issues here. It's worth actually having a browser that doesn't consume all available resource.
- joecool1029 10y ago
  Heh. Tried that out and while it didn't affect stability it made switching tabs take 2-3s on a haswell system. By disabling all extensions with it I was able to somewhat match performance of non-multiprocess.
- anexprogrammer 10y ago
  Nice idea but a load of useful extensions don't work with it. Of extensions I use noscript and 1password were the main ones, but around half were tagged as not compatible.
__jal 10y ago
My home desktop is an i5-1620 with 64G RAM running Ubuntu 16.04, and Firefox just hiccups and lags, period. It is sad. I need to find time to experiment with Chrome while blocking all the Google chatter to see how functional it remains without being able to tattle to the mothership (otherwise I won't use it).
- SubiculumCode 10y ago
  Hiccups and lags are seen in all browsers and is due to bloated websites. Also, Chrome will write just as much to your SSD as Firefox
- brianwawok 10y ago
  Why not Chromium?
  - CaptSpify 10y ago
    I personally wouldn't recommend chromium because they've been known to do some shady things: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909 I'd imagine someone like the above poster would be concerned about that. At least I know I am
- rasz_pl 10y ago
  Try Vivaldi.
wodenokoto 10y ago
I have an old dual core with 4 gigs of ram and Firefox runs better than chrome.
superkuh 10y ago
Try out the Pale Moon firefox forks. I'm running it on an old core2duo 6400 (2.13 GHz) with 8 GB ram. I have over 700 tabs in my session right now with at least 300 of them fully loaded. It's using less than 3GB ram. And it's fast/snappy with smooth scrolling.
Manishearth 10y ago
According to the blog post Chrome has the same issue, they just haven't investigated yet.

overcast 10y ago

You need to enable multiprocess in Firefox, so the thing doesn't shit the bed on you constantly. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

theandrewbailey 10y ago
Look out for addons. Electrolysis will still not work with many of them. I force enabled it a few weeks ago, and discovered that it's disabled for good reasons.
- overcast 10y ago
  Have about ten plugins, no issues here. It's worth actually having a browser that doesn't consume all available resource.
joecool1029 10y ago
Heh. Tried that out and while it didn't affect stability it made switching tabs take 2-3s on a haswell system. By disabling all extensions with it I was able to somewhat match performance of non-multiprocess.
anexprogrammer 10y ago
Nice idea but a load of useful extensions don't work with it. Of extensions I use noscript and 1password were the main ones, but around half were tagged as not compatible.

__jal 10y ago

My home desktop is an i5-1620 with 64G RAM running Ubuntu 16.04, and Firefox just hiccups and lags, period. It is sad. I need to find time to experiment with Chrome while blocking all the Google chatter to see how functional it remains without being able to tattle to the mothership (otherwise I won't use it).

SubiculumCode 10y ago
Hiccups and lags are seen in all browsers and is due to bloated websites. Also, Chrome will write just as much to your SSD as Firefox
brianwawok 10y ago
Why not Chromium?
- CaptSpify 10y ago
  I personally wouldn't recommend chromium because they've been known to do some shady things: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909 I'd imagine someone like the above poster would be concerned about that. At least I know I am
rasz_pl 10y ago
Try Vivaldi.

wodenokoto 10y ago

I have an old dual core with 4 gigs of ram and Firefox runs better than chrome.

superkuh 10y ago

Try out the Pale Moon firefox forks. I'm running it on an old core2duo 6400 (2.13 GHz) with 8 GB ram. I have over 700 tabs in my session right now with at least 300 of them fully loaded. It's using less than 3GB ram. And it's fast/snappy with smooth scrolling.

Manishearth 10y ago

According to the blog post Chrome has the same issue, they just haven't investigated yet.