Firefox became much slower

[Dave Horsfall]

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) would fix existent bugs instead of adding frilly new 
"features"' we don't all have terabytes of free memory.

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."