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I've tried to use Firefox, even though I don't like Mozilla's direction. But it just sucks too much. The new updates have made it worse, not better: these day

I've tried to use Firefox, even though I don't like Mozilla's direction. But it just sucks too much. The new updates have made it worse, not better: these days, it leaks CPU. What do I mean? If I leave it running for too long with a bunch of tabs open, it will eat more and more of my CPU until it's hogging it all. Killing and re-opening solves it, but I can't do that all the time. Surf, Midori, and Qutebrowser are all good options (webkit-based) that I'd encourage others in similar situations to explore.

sfink 6y ago
That would be a bug. I use it all day with hundreds of tabs (sometimes thousands, but I'm getting better about pruning back) and don't see this. I know many, many people who could say the same. If you have time, please file it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi . If you're willing, include a profile ( https://profiler.firefox.com https://profiler.firefox.com is pretty easy to use). You can look at about:performance (or in newer versions, about:processes, but I don't think that's in release yet.) When you file the bug, you will probably be asked if it still happens in safe mode (which would probably blame an addon).
gryn 6y ago
I've been using it for the last 2 years. both on linux and windows, works ok on the later, but on linux I keep getting random corrupted graphics / black screens each time ram/swap are almost full. looking into filled bugs this doens't seems to be something new, I can find some bug reports dating back to 6 years and no sugestions for a fix beside disabling hardware acceleration, which doesn't work for me at least.
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jjav 6y ago
> If I leave it running for too long with a bunch of tabs open, it will eat more and more of my CPU until it's hogging it all. That's not normal Firefox behavior. I run multiple windows (one in each monitor), each of them with many dozens of tabs and only time I ever quit Firefox is if I have to reboot the machine for an update, so it runs for many months on end. Never seen this runaway CPU consumption.
- oarsinsync 6y ago
  > so it runs for many months on end Danger. You want to restart it more frequently than this for updates.

sfink 6y ago

That would be a bug. I use it all day with hundreds of tabs (sometimes thousands, but I'm getting better about pruning back) and don't see this. I know many, many people who could say the same. If you have time, please file it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi . If you're willing, include a profile ( https://profiler.firefox.com https://profiler.firefox.com is pretty easy to use). You can look at about:performance (or in newer versions, about:processes, but I don't think that's in release yet.) When you file the bug, you will probably be asked if it still happens in safe mode (which would probably blame an addon).

gryn 6y ago

I've been using it for the last 2 years. both on linux and windows, works ok on the later, but on linux I keep getting random corrupted graphics / black screens each time ram/swap are almost full. looking into filled bugs this doens't seems to be something new, I can find some bug reports dating back to 6 years and no sugestions for a fix beside disabling hardware acceleration, which doesn't work for me at least.

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jjav 6y ago

> If I leave it running for too long with a bunch of tabs open, it will eat more and more of my CPU until it's hogging it all. That's not normal Firefox behavior. I run multiple windows (one in each monitor), each of them with many dozens of tabs and only time I ever quit Firefox is if I have to reboot the machine for an update, so it runs for many months on end. Never seen this runaway CPU consumption.

oarsinsync 6y ago
> so it runs for many months on end Danger. You want to restart it more frequently than this for updates.