[PLUG-TALK] Firefox RAM requirements

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Fri Sep 30 14:07:46 UTC 2022


On Fri, 30 Sep 2022, Bill Barry wrote:

> 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.

I'd also try moving your current Firefox home-directory configs and 
cache out of the way and starting it with a blank profile.

-- 
Paul Heinlein
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