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I haven’t had it hang yet but it does slow down and become laggy after a week or so for me. You can use “Open previous Windows and tabs” to keep your tabs betw
by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
I haven’t had it hang yet but it does slow down and become laggy after a week or so for me.
You can use “Open previous Windows and tabs” to keep your tabs between restarts. It only works on the last window you have closed though.
- simcop2387 3y agoIt will work on all open windows if you close them at the same time. File->Quit, ctrl+q or cmd+q are all ways to do that.
- magicalhippo 3y agoSame for me. I discovered it was Slack that had some live leak, one time it had eaten 33GB of RAM. An auto-reload extesion did the trick to prevent it from going too far, but I'd really wish Firefox would handle it more gracefully. Unless I say so, a normal web page shouldn't eat gigs of RAM or tons of CPU.
- galangalalgol 3y agoSo wouldn't chrome have the same issue?
- plorkyeran 3y agoI do have similar problems with chrome and have to restart it every few days.
- kefabean 3y agoAnd Safari on MacOS. It occasionally gets into a state where it becomes unresponsive to clicking on links.
- Zardoz84 3y agoI noticed a similar problem with Twitch client.
- dwattttt 3y agoGiven how well web pages are coded, I'm curious whether a Firefox that's browsed to 50 static pages fares. At some point the pages themselves should get some blame (and yes, they can be offloaded, but we're back to balancing responsiveness & long term resource usage, and people are complaining about the pages being reloaded after exit as a delay)
- cpeterso 3y agoChrome recently added a setting so you can display a tab’s memory usage when you mouse over the tab. In Firefox, you can check the memory usage of each tab in Firefox’s Task Manager (about:processes). https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/task-manager-tabs-or-extensions-are-slowing-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/task-manager-tabs-or-ex...
- magicalhippo 3y agoOr use the much more detailed about:memory, that's how I discovered the live leak.
- inferiorhuman 3y agoYeah it does the same for me (macos) after a few days. Open previous windows and tabs should restore all windows though (at least it does for me).
- the8472 3y ago> It only works on the last window you have closed though. Alt+F, Q exits all windows at once and also restores them the next time you launch firefox.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoCtrl+Q or Cmd+Q for Mac.
- tempestn 3y agoOr Exit under the hamburger menu, if you don't want to remember the keyboard shortcut.