[PLUG-TALK] Firefox RAM requirements

[Bill Barry]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 12:29 AM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> There have been a number of recent posts here about Firefox, but none
> of them addressed the following issue for Firefox 105.0.1 on Xubuntu
> 22.04, up to date. The Help > About says 'Moz F Sync for Ub.,
> canonical-002 - 1.0.' Apparently it is the snap version.
>
> The problem is that the computer runs normally, except for Firefox,
> which lags into sometime next week when trying to do anything. The task
> manager GUI says that CPU and RAM are both at 85-90%. The computer has
> 32GB RAM. I don't know the command to find the CPU, but the computer is
> close to two years old and at the time of purchase had the next to the
> highest CPU option, whatever that was. When Firefox is in this state it
> takes 1-2 minutes to switch to a different tab. This affects only
> Firefox; Chromium runs normally, and so do LibreOffice, Claws Mail,
> torrent client (Deluge), and everything else.
>
> If I kill Firefox and restart it, performance is normal for an hour or
> so, and then things slowly bog down until it is virtually unusable
> again.
>
> I could use some suggestions. :)
> ______________________________


Does this problem occur for a particular website that you are using or does
it happen no matter what website you have open? I am just guessing that
some website you are using has a JavaScript memory leak problem. You could
try opening the same site with chromium to see if it handles it better.