[TriLUG] Problems with Firefox v29

[Greg Cox]

Check against about:memory to see where the memory's going?


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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