Firefox memory usage

[Jin Guojun[VFF]]

On 2020-11-08 12:46, Pete Wright wrote:
>
>
> On 11/8/20 10:04 AM, Mario Lobo wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 2:17 PM Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 11/8/20 8:51 AM, Mario Lobo wrote:
>>>> Hi;
>>>>
>>>> Has Firefox just become a major memory gobbler ?
>>> I've observed this as well.  I am not sure if it's just firefox or some
>>> of the webapp's i have to use for work (gsuite/google docs, atlassian
>>> and other javascript heavy sites).
>>>
>>> i can't even run slack in firefox as it slows down and eventually 
>>> causes
>>> my system to start swapping.
>>>
>>> regardless i've been needing to restart firefox usually by midweek to
>>> get memory free'd up so the system doesn't go down.
>>>
>>> -pete
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Pete Wright
>>> pete at nomadlogic.org
>>> @nomadlogicLA
>>>
>>>
>> Well .. I've always had several tabs opened  and with versions 7x wasn't
>> like this.
>>
>> It became like this with 8x versions.
> %100 agree - i have observed that as well.
>
> -p
>
In my observation, the 47 was a lightweight and stable version. Since it 
does not handle new features, new browser is needed.

5x starts chewing more memory when loading certain pages on both FreeBSD 
and Linux.

54-57 seem having a bug that can take Nx100% CPU when loading some pages 
(consume all cores).

Not used any 6x, but when upgrading to 7x, Firefox starts slower, and 8x 
starts even slower.

The latest Chrome starts slow as well. Not clear if this is related to 
new web features, Xorg, or browsers.

-Jin