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6 tabs, 1GB of RAM, ~20% CPU usage for me on Firefox. I have a few basic QoL plugins like LastPass, uBlock, and NoScript. It's absolutely ridiculous. I want to

6 tabs, 1GB of RAM, ~20% CPU usage for me on Firefox. I have a few basic QoL plugins like LastPass, uBlock, and NoScript. It's absolutely ridiculous. I want to keep using FireFox, but it's forcing me to consider moving to another browser.

mkj 10y ago
If there are only 6 tabs it should be easy to narrow down which is a problem?
mixmastamyk 10y ago
Vacuuming your profile might help: #!/bin/bash killall firefox for file in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/*.sqlite; do echo sqlite3 "$file" VACUUM sqlite3 "$file" VACUUM done I do it in my once-a-month cleanup script.
- na85 10y ago
  I remember the days when leaving Windows meant not having to futz with cleanup scripts. What happened?
  - sp332 10y ago
    Firefox and SQLite have actually improved a lot since those days. And it's not like Firefox uses a different database system on different platforms, it's all exactly the same.
  - mgurlitz 10y ago
    When was this? I recall having to use Cocktail with OS X (10.2-10.9) because the system maintenance scripts would never run if my laptop was off/asleep at midnight. In general, Unix users have had to use cron scripts almost since its origin.
- majewsky 10y ago
  Looking at `find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name \.sqlite`, there are some more such databases for window.localStorage and the like. So this could be generalized to find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name \*.sqlite -print -exec sqlite3 {} VACUUM \;
- Twirrim 10y ago
  For those on OS X, it looks like: find $HOME/Library/Application Support/Firefox -name \*.sqlite -print -exec sqlite3 {} VACUUM \;
SAI_Peregrinus 10y ago
254 Tabs, 3.3GB of RAM, ~2% CPU usage for me on Firefox 50.1.0. You've got something wrong (and I have too many tabs open)...
richardboegli 10y ago
Try Pale Moon. Forked from Firefox 27 and super fast. http://palemoon.org http://palemoon.org
- nomight 10y ago
  Incorrect. Pale Moon 27 is based on Firefox 38 for back-end and Firefox 24 (ish, with some 26-isms) for the front-end. That said, I'd still recommend it. :-)

mkj 10y ago

If there are only 6 tabs it should be easy to narrow down which is a problem?

mixmastamyk 10y ago

Vacuuming your profile might help: #!/bin/bash killall firefox for file in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/*.sqlite; do echo sqlite3 "$file" VACUUM sqlite3 "$file" VACUUM done I do it in my once-a-month cleanup script.

na85 10y ago
I remember the days when leaving Windows meant not having to futz with cleanup scripts. What happened?
- sp332 10y ago
  Firefox and SQLite have actually improved a lot since those days. And it's not like Firefox uses a different database system on different platforms, it's all exactly the same.
- mgurlitz 10y ago
  When was this? I recall having to use Cocktail with OS X (10.2-10.9) because the system maintenance scripts would never run if my laptop was off/asleep at midnight. In general, Unix users have had to use cron scripts almost since its origin.
majewsky 10y ago
Looking at `find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name \.sqlite`, there are some more such databases for window.localStorage and the like. So this could be generalized to find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name \*.sqlite -print -exec sqlite3 {} VACUUM \;
Twirrim 10y ago
For those on OS X, it looks like: find $HOME/Library/Application Support/Firefox -name \*.sqlite -print -exec sqlite3 {} VACUUM \;

SAI_Peregrinus 10y ago

254 Tabs, 3.3GB of RAM, ~2% CPU usage for me on Firefox 50.1.0. You've got something wrong (and I have too many tabs open)...

richardboegli 10y ago

Try Pale Moon. Forked from Firefox 27 and super fast. http://palemoon.org http://palemoon.org

nomight 10y ago
Incorrect. Pale Moon 27 is based on Firefox 38 for back-end and Firefox 24 (ish, with some 26-isms) for the front-end. That said, I'd still recommend it. :-)