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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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I would start here: about:about There you should have these: |
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about:addons-memory |
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about:memory |
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about:performance |
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One of those may shed some light or lead to something. I hope anyway. |
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In the past, I've found that sometimes two add-ons can clash and one or |
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the other has to be disabled to correct this until that add-on is fixed. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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