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On Wednesday 14 Jun 2017 13:10:16 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> Starting a few months back, I've noticed that on some of my machines, |
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> Firefox has started to use rediculous amounts of CPU and memory. It |
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> will burn 100% of a CPU for minutes at a time while apparently doing |
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> nothing. Opening 2-3 tabs will use up 1-2 GB of RAM. Doing the same |
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> thing thing in Chrome uses 0% CPU (once pages are rendered) and less |
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> that 1/10 the RAM. |
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> I've got the same version of Firefox with the same set of extensions |
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> on other machines that don't seem to have issues. |
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> Is there any useful troubleshooting one can do (e.g. uninstalling |
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> extensions one at a time)? Or is it finally time to give up on |
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> Firefox? |
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It may be hardware acceleration trouble. What video card are you using? I |
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have noticed hard lock ups on FF, LibreOffice and even Kmail (more rare) on |
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two different systems with AMD/Radeon video cards. The keyboard becomes |
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totally unresponsive. This has started since the last Xorg/Mesa update, but I |
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haven't had the time to look into it. The logs do not show anything |
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meaningful. FF was particularly troublesome on version 45.8.0, but with |
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52.1.0-r1 seems to have settled down. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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