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Firefox has been hilariously bad for Macs for as long as I can remember. I refused to touch for over 15 years because it was incredibly slow each time I tried.

by fiblye 7y ago

Firefox has been hilariously bad for Macs for as long as I can remember. I refused to touch for over 15 years because it was incredibly slow each time I tried. Now that I'm trying to get out of Google's sphere of influence, I'm kind of forced back into it (Safari just doesn't feel right to me). Speed seems much better than it used to be and I can't really tell any difference between it and Chrome. Memory usage is an absolute disaster though. There are times where I only have 4 tabs of HN open and Firefox will be consuming over 9 GB of memory. Right now I'm sitting at 3.6 GB used for just a couple tabs of programming documentation. Madness.

joelthelion 7y ago
Is that actual memory use, or cache? If it's the latter, it's actually a good thing.
novaRom 7y ago
This is probably OSX issue, my FF works great on Ubuntu. I wish more users will install Linux on their Macs, it is eons better than OSX Toy.
- CDSlice 7y ago
  Well, since Chrome and Safari both don't have this issue I doubt it is something intrinsic to MacOS itself. Also, how is MacOS a toy? It's literally a certified Unix system.
  - novaRom 7y ago
    MacOS is complete junk. If you want to get software security, hardware, and system stability problems then good luck. Latest MBP and Airs are total crap. Just go to nearest Apple Store and you can even see how it reboots randomly; or create a text file and chances are you will see different problems as you type.
sfink 7y ago
9gb for 4 tabs of HN sounds ridiculously wrong. (Thanks for mentioning what is in your N tabs. I tend to ignore complaints that only give the value of N. Nobody would say "Why is my computer running out of memory when I'm only running 20 applications?") Can you please file a bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org and include an about:memory dump? You'll probably need to report what addons you have too.

by fiblye 7y ago

joelthelion 7y ago

Is that actual memory use, or cache? If it's the latter, it's actually a good thing.

novaRom 7y ago

This is probably OSX issue, my FF works great on Ubuntu. I wish more users will install Linux on their Macs, it is eons better than OSX Toy.

CDSlice 7y ago
Well, since Chrome and Safari both don't have this issue I doubt it is something intrinsic to MacOS itself. Also, how is MacOS a toy? It's literally a certified Unix system.
- novaRom 7y ago
  MacOS is complete junk. If you want to get software security, hardware, and system stability problems then good luck. Latest MBP and Airs are total crap. Just go to nearest Apple Store and you can even see how it reboots randomly; or create a text file and chances are you will see different problems as you type.

sfink 7y ago

9gb for 4 tabs of HN sounds ridiculously wrong. (Thanks for mentioning what is in your N tabs. I tend to ignore complaints that only give the value of N. Nobody would say "Why is my computer running out of memory when I'm only running 20 applications?") Can you please file a bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org and include an about:memory dump? You'll probably need to report what addons you have too.