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Please keep these little icons unchanged, i don't care about it. Do not make tabs cuter, I don't care about it. But PLEASE - do something to stop Firefox from

by gesman 11y ago

Please keep these little icons unchanged, i don't care about it. Do not make tabs cuter, I don't care about it. But PLEASE - do something to stop Firefox from being such a bloated memory hog - I deeply care about it.

chuckharmston 11y ago
Firefox itself is quite fast [1]; if you're having issues, there's a good chance that it's due to an add-on [2]. A (historically; I'm unsure if this is still the case) particularly egregious offender [3] is AdBlock Plus, but µBlock [4] does come highly recommended. [1] http://arewefastyet.com http://arewefastyet.com [2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram#w_disabling-memory-consuming-extensions-and-themes https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-m... [3] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-pluss-effect-on-firefoxs-memory-usage/ https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus... [4] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ublock/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ublock/
- gesman 11y ago
  I didn't say it slow. It is indeed fast. Thank you for that! Until suddenly the show stops and I have to kill it via Taskmgr to inject new life into it due to memory suffocation.
  - chuckharmston 11y ago
    Hmm...that doesn't sound like normal behavior; my uneducated guess would be that there's a specific webpage or extension with a leak. Next time it happens, it'd be fantastic if you could go to about:memory, save the reports, and file a bug with them attached: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox
sp332 11y ago
Firefox is not a bloated memory hog (anymore).
- gesman 11y ago
  I'll send you a memory consumption snapshot soon. 8 tabs == 1GB memory already but i can live with it for now. When it eats 3GB+ -- and unfortunately it will - then it'll become an issue.
  - sp332 11y ago
    Do you have unusual plugins that might be using a lot of RAM? Do the same tabs take up less memory in Chrome?
  - voltagex_ 11y ago
    about:memory

by gesman 11y ago

chuckharmston 11y ago

Firefox itself is quite fast [1]; if you're having issues, there's a good chance that it's due to an add-on [2]. A (historically; I'm unsure if this is still the case) particularly egregious offender [3] is AdBlock Plus, but µBlock [4] does come highly recommended. [1] http://arewefastyet.com http://arewefastyet.com [2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram#w_disabling-memory-consuming-extensions-and-themes https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-m... [3] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-pluss-effect-on-firefoxs-memory-usage/ https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus... [4] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ublock/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ublock/

gesman 11y ago
I didn't say it slow. It is indeed fast. Thank you for that! Until suddenly the show stops and I have to kill it via Taskmgr to inject new life into it due to memory suffocation.
- chuckharmston 11y ago
  Hmm...that doesn't sound like normal behavior; my uneducated guess would be that there's a specific webpage or extension with a leak. Next time it happens, it'd be fantastic if you could go to about:memory, save the reports, and file a bug with them attached: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox

sp332 11y ago

Firefox is not a bloated memory hog (anymore).

gesman 11y ago
I'll send you a memory consumption snapshot soon. 8 tabs == 1GB memory already but i can live with it for now. When it eats 3GB+ -- and unfortunately it will - then it'll become an issue.
- sp332 11y ago
  Do you have unusual plugins that might be using a lot of RAM? Do the same tabs take up less memory in Chrome?
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  about:memory