Firefox became much slower

[Chris H]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 20:33:05 -0500 roberthuff at rcn.com wrote

> Chris H writes:
> 
> >  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.
> 
>     Then I submit something is wrong with your installation of
> FireFox and/or your system.  (That could include undetected
> malware.)
>     I have been using FireFox, and SeaMonkey, since version 1.0 of
> each; never have I seen this behavior when not visiting any
> web-sites.

Indeed. Under *those* circumstances I would suspect that also.
To be more concise; I was referring to a browser with a few
tabs with content.
But it doesn't appear to matter too much which web sites. But
if javascript is involved, it compounds the problem.

Thanks for the reply!

--Chris

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>             Respectfully,
> 
> 
>                 Robert Huff