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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 th
by 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 agoI 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 agoHmm...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