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When trying to diagnose performance or memory issues with a browser, always start with the installed and enabled extensions.

bilbo0s 1y ago
Yep. Can’t upvote this enough. Next up would be looking closer at the pages you frequent. I think many people would be surprised at all the ways web apps screw up these days. All that said, the browsers, as unfair as it may seem, should do better at handling all of the slop that web app and extension developers put out there. It’s sometimes just a whole lot easier to make the browser more bulletproof than it is to make a bajillion JavaScript/python monkeys conscientious and competent.
- mdaniel 1y ago
  An alternate between those two endpoints would be to offer better tooling to enable both users and monkeys to identify things contributing to bad outcomes. I don't just mean devtools, either, I mean "oh, it seems this tab is taking up $foo memory because the background image is a 400MB .mp4 and ..." type thing. They went through all the trouble to put AI in the browser, so ask it :-/
rcfox 1y ago
These days, I'd say always start with the YouTube tabs.
- ambicapter 1y ago
  Youtube is just hopelessly broken on Firefox/Linux anyways. Half the time the home page doesn't even load.
  - jlarocco 1y ago
    What type of problems do you have? I use YouTube in Firefox on Linux almost every day and as far as I can tell it's working perfectly. I don't go to the home page, though, only access videos via search (using !yt on Kagi) and by clicking around related videos. I don't see any memory issues that the OP is talking about, either. Maybe uBlock is fixing it for me?
  - Yizahi 1y ago
    Same, it started this year. Once a week or two YT just refuses to render its page completely.
  - birksherty 1y ago
    I only use ff on windows. No issue. I do have premium. May be adblocking YT is broken. I have ublock turned on too, but no issue.

bilbo0s 1y ago

Yep. Can’t upvote this enough. Next up would be looking closer at the pages you frequent. I think many people would be surprised at all the ways web apps screw up these days. All that said, the browsers, as unfair as it may seem, should do better at handling all of the slop that web app and extension developers put out there. It’s sometimes just a whole lot easier to make the browser more bulletproof than it is to make a bajillion JavaScript/python monkeys conscientious and competent.

mdaniel 1y ago
An alternate between those two endpoints would be to offer better tooling to enable both users and monkeys to identify things contributing to bad outcomes. I don't just mean devtools, either, I mean "oh, it seems this tab is taking up $foo memory because the background image is a 400MB .mp4 and ..." type thing. They went through all the trouble to put AI in the browser, so ask it :-/

rcfox 1y ago

These days, I'd say always start with the YouTube tabs.

ambicapter 1y ago
Youtube is just hopelessly broken on Firefox/Linux anyways. Half the time the home page doesn't even load.
- jlarocco 1y ago
  What type of problems do you have? I use YouTube in Firefox on Linux almost every day and as far as I can tell it's working perfectly. I don't go to the home page, though, only access videos via search (using !yt on Kagi) and by clicking around related videos. I don't see any memory issues that the OP is talking about, either. Maybe uBlock is fixing it for me?
- Yizahi 1y ago
  Same, it started this year. Once a week or two YT just refuses to render its page completely.
- birksherty 1y ago
  I only use ff on windows. No issue. I do have premium. May be adblocking YT is broken. I have ublock turned on too, but no issue.