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| From | David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage |
| Date | 2018-10-12 20:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <wI9Tc-3YZ-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 18:45:16 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 06:15:06PM -0400, bw wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > That's because Firefox is now multiprocess. > > > > > > The main Firefox process handles the user interface, fetching > > > web pages, decoding them, and some of the rendering work. > > > > > > The Web Content process(es) are fired off to run things that the > > > web pages demand be run: JavaScript, CSS animations, weird media > > > things. Mostly JavaScript. I'm running FF 60.2.2esr and displaying some ancient html (2001) with static pages containing text and photos. Top shows "firefox-esr" (7932) most of the time, "Web content" (7988) infrequently, and "file:// Content" (8026) perhaps a little more often (it's difficult to judge). These processes pop up almost regardless of when I click to add another tab to the collection that are open. ps ax shows the following list of processes: 7932 pts/17 Sl 0:33 firefox-esr file:///home/david/…the index page….html 7988 pts/17 Sl 0:02 /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr -contentproc -childID 1 -isForBrowser -intPrefs 235:1| -boolPrefs 36:1|261:1|301:0| -stringPrefs 2 8026 pts/17 Sl 0:07 /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr -contentproc -childID 2 -isForBrowser -intPrefs 235:1| -boolPrefs 36:1|261:1|301:0| -stringPrefs 2 8095 pts/17 Sl 0:00 /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr -contentproc -childID 3 -isForBrowser -intPrefs 235:1| -boolPrefs 36:1|261:1|301:0| -stringPrefs 2 I've not observed 8095 in top at all. There's no java/css or anything like that. I did notice that if I hold down Ctrl-PageUp (ie circulate through tabs), 7932 and 8026 stay firm at the top of top. When I close all the tabs and leave open just the Mozilla Firefox start page that displays the one-inch icons of sites I visit, PID 8026 disappears, and it's easy to see that 7988 (Web content) is processing the icons as I move the mouse over them. > > > Killing them off won't help. You need to solve the underlying > > > problem. > > > > > > I don't know what that is, exactly, but advertising and trackers > > > now take up 90% of most web processing time and space. Running a > > > good ad blocker like uBlock Origin will help a lot. > > > > How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all > > the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken? > > Ah, that's easy. Turns out that stretch is perfectly capable of > running software that the Debian Project does not package, and I > would argue that trying to keep a firefox-esr running is not the > right thing to do. Firefox just isn't ready for the Debian > definition of stable. > > The Debian volunteers working on Firefox would be better serving > the community if they were only spending a few minutes packaging > up each major-number release from Mozilla, and putting the rest > of the time towards looking for security problems in it. > > There may well be a use for a "stable" web browser, but Firefox > can't be that one. I would understand your writing the last sentence with the word "secure" (though I would wish to know which insecurities you're troubled by), but not as written here with "stable". I'm finding stretch's FF Quantum very stable so far. Is this because I don't use a DE, perhaps? Cheers, David.
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Slow firefox and high cpu usage Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2018-10-08 20:10 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2018-10-08 21:10 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2018-10-08 22:10 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2018-10-09 02:10 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2018-10-10 22:10 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-10-11 00:00 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-11 00:20 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-11 00:40 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 05:30 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-11 00:40 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-10-11 01:10 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-11 01:20 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-11 02:50 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-11 03:10 +0200
Re: Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage dekks herton <dekkzz78@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 12:50 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-11 21:40 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-14 03:50 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-17 00:20 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-10-17 00:50 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-17 01:30 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-17 15:10 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-17 21:30 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-17 22:10 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-17 23:20 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-14 03:50 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-17 00:40 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-20 02:40 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-14 05:20 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-10-14 11:30 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-17 00:20 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-10-11 00:40 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-10-11 00:50 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-12 20:00 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-10-12 20:50 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-12 21:40 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 21:30 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2018-10-12 01:20 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2018-10-10 20:50 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2018-10-12 11:50 +0200
Re: Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage dekks herton <dekkzz78@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 13:00 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-10-08 23:40 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2018-10-10 20:20 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-10 20:40 +0200
Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-10-10 23:30 +0200
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