[TriLUG] Problems with Firefox v29

[Ric Moore]

On 05/19/2014 11:03 AM, Scott G. Hall wrote:
> Anyone else having problems with Firefox lately?
>
> Ever since the latest package update from Ubuntu (29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.2),
> version 29 of Firefox, I've had performance problems.  There are severe memory
> leaks, tons of window manager resources used (far more than the previous version).
>
> My general usage pattern is to have 10 to 15 tabs open, and the only
> addons/plugins I've added are TabMix-Plus; Mint Linux adds the DuckDuckGo search
> plugin, IcedTea-Web, Gecko Media Player, Totem Player, Adobe Reader and Adobe
> Shockwave.  This hasn't changed for the last several versions, but version 29 is
> a drastic resource hog.


Have you tried running it will all extensions off?? My install of 
Firefox became pig slow until I started blocking trackers. AMAZING just 
how much of your bandwidth and system resources that they can consume. 
:) Ric



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