Grant Edwards wrote: > Starting a few months back, I've noticed that on some of my machines, > Firefox has started to use rediculous amounts of CPU and memory. It > will burn 100% of a CPU for minutes at a time while apparently doing > nothing. Opening 2-3 tabs will use up 1-2 GB of RAM. Doing the same > thing thing in Chrome uses 0% CPU (once pages are rendered) and less > that 1/10 the RAM. > > I've got the same version of Firefox with the same set of extensions > on other machines that don't seem to have issues. > > Is there any useful troubleshooting one can do (e.g. uninstalling > extensions one at a time)? Or is it finally time to give up on > Firefox? >
I would start here: about:about There you should have these: about:addons-memory about:memory about:performance One of those may shed some light or lead to something. I hope anyway. In the past, I've found that sometimes two add-ons can clash and one or the other has to be disabled to correct this until that add-on is fixed. Dale :-) :-)
