[PLUG] Firefox is a pig

Nat Taylor bioborg at gmail.com
Sat Sep 1 17:39:58 UTC 2018


Do you have ublock origin and privacy badger installed?   Those might limit
firefox's memory use.

On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Ali Corbin <ali.corbin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 10:07 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
>
> > Firefox 61.0.1 on Xubuntu 16.04.
> >
> > I have tried Chrome, Midori, and lots of other browsers, but they all
> > fail to provide all the functionality that I need. And they tend to be
> > just as gluttonous as Firefox anyway.
> >
> > The big problem is CPU usage. The computer has 16GB of RAM, and I never
> > come close to using all of it. But Firefox usually takes most of the
> > CPU. This leaves me little for ripping and encoding movies, which is
> > also very CPU intensive.
> >
> > I found a little program called cpulimit, which doesn't quite work. I
> > launched Firefox yesterday with 'cpulimit -l 20 firefox' and right now
> > Firefox itself is taking a mere 3% of the CPU, but there are currently
> > four Firefox child processes ('contentproc') and one of them is taking
> > 80%. This wouldn't be annoying if it was just a temporary usage while
> > it was loading a web page or something, but it has been stuck at 80%
> > for the past hour, even though all Firefox windows are minimized.
> >
> > The only way to get Firefox to behave is to kill it completely. And if
> > I then re-launch it, even though I have it restore the previous
> > session, it initially takes little of the CPU, but by a couple hours
> > later it is back to taking almost all of it.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > In the past I've used 'nice' to invoke nasty batch processes, to keep
> them
> from totally taking over the cpu.  I've never tried it with a browser, but
> it might be interesting to see if it helps any.
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