Firefox became much slower

[Chris H]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 09:16:29 +1100 (EST) Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote

> On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Chris H wrote:
> 
> > FWIW Firefox has always leaked memory like water through a sieve. As a 
> > result, no matter how many resources I have on any given system. I can't 
> > leave FF open for any length of time, w/o having to restart it; else 
> > system starts swapping until all resources are exhausted; then panic && 
> > reboot.
> 
> It got really bad around 53 or so; I wish their programmers (no doubt 
> fresh out of school)
Heh, funny you should say. I got that same impression. :)

> would fix existent bugs instead of adding frilly new 
> "features"' we don't all have terabytes of free memory.
Amen to that! Remove a personal security feature, and give
me a "pocket" -- are you ####### kidding me?!

All the best to you, Dave!

--Chris
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