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| Started by | "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> |
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| First post | 2024-12-11 21:40 +0100 |
| Last post | 2024-12-11 22:50 +0100 |
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Re: Firefox alternatives? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2024-12-11 21:40 +0100
Re: Firefox alternatives? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-12-11 22:50 +0100
| From | "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> |
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| Date | 2024-12-11 21:40 +0100 |
| Subject | Re: Firefox alternatives? |
| Message-ID | <JSBF0-gbQp-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 12:08:40PM -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets > really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or > two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes > running. Memory is half full, and swap is about 10% used. When I kill > Firefox and restart, things go back to normal for a few hours. > > What alternatives that aren't such pigs do you recommend? > If you're still running Debian 12.5 - you can check by listing the contents of /etc/debian_version which should read 12.8 - update Debian to the current version. Don't leave Firefox running for days with tabs open - close it periodically? Swap 10% used seems very high. You're running the firefox-esr version supplied in Debian stable? All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater (amacater@debian.org)
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| From | Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> |
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| Date | 2024-12-11 22:50 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <JSCKJ-gcBo-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #275519 |
Hi, On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 01:29:43PM -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 20:39 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Don't leave Firefox running for days with tabs open - close it > > periodically? > > Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. If I close the windows manually, > firefox forgets what it was doing, so I kill it periodically. Maybe > more frequently than I have been doing. It is not normal to have to periodically close Firefox to retain performance by the way. I have 3 windows with 100+ tabs and they all stay open all the time for months at a time only being closed when I reboot for a kernel upgrade or something. In the past certainly I have had times where the browser or one of the extensions I use has had a memory leak and this hasn't been possible. It's not a normal state of affairs though. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
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