Re: [gentoo-user] Memory/CPU usage in recent versions of Firefox

[Radoje Stojisic]

Which version of Firefox do you use? The latest version 54 has multi processor architecture included. Otherwise use about:performance the check what uses the most RAM. 



Am 14. Juni 2017 15:10:16 MESZ schrieb Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>:
>Starting a few months back, I've noticed that on some of my machines,
>Firefox has started to use rediculous amounts of CPU and memory. It
>will burn 100% of a CPU for minutes at a time while apparently doing
>nothing.  Opening 2-3 tabs will use up 1-2 GB of RAM.  Doing the same
>thing thing in Chrome uses 0% CPU (once pages are rendered) and less
>that 1/10 the RAM.
>
>I've got the same version of Firefox with the same set of extensions
>on other machines that don't seem to have issues.
>
>Is there any useful troubleshooting one can do (e.g. uninstalling
>extensions one at a time)?  Or is it finally time to give up on
>Firefox?
>
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>Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! Are you still
>an
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Greetings 
Radi