Hello all, I must also chime in on what has certainly felt like a significant performance loss that has crept into the FF engine. I went through the prior troubleshooting steps as well, but found the biggest 'problem' was continued use of the 32-bit version. Most all performance problems went away when I started utilizing the 64-bit version, so that might be worth a test?
In hind-sight, the explosive advent of multimedia driven sites, combined with add-on resource utilization, and the limitation of 2GB RAM per a 32-bit application was apparently more than it could readily handle with some of the more recent (~2 years) engine changes. Firefox was constantly freezing while running garbage collection for seconds at a time; while unfortunate, this is necessary, lest it try to use more RAM than a 32-bit application is allowed, and gets forcibly terminated by the O/S task scheduler. I'm concerned, however, that this is a band-aid style approach. With Firefox now running multiple processes with multiple tabs, and with the RAM usage increasing on some new builds, I'm concerned that Firefox may shortly be as bad as Chrome with resource utilization. Right now I have 5 Firefox windows open, with 7, 8, 8, 4, and 3 tabs open, respectively. There are 7 instances of firefox.exe running, with a memory Private Working Set allocation ranging from 202MB to 698MB. Total 3,366MB private usage. I'm only actively using about 3 of these tabs; the others are for reference purposes, or projects for when I get more than a few spare minutes at a time. Chrome is worse: My wife uses Chrome on her personal laptop and regularly hits the paging file with only 2 windows open and about a dozen tabs scattered between them. The laptop has 6GB of RAM, yet Chrome has at least 20 processes running, and in excess of 4.5GB total RAM utilization in the example above. Chrome obviously can't manage its resource utilization well enough to keep comfortably within that space. While Firefox is installed and up-to-date, she won't use it because she doesn't like the constant changes to work-flow. I continue to use, support, and deploy Firefox at my office because we have a large quantity of resource-constrained machines. Chrome tests have always gone very poorly for the reasons stated above. I've stuck with older builds of Firefox because they work very well, given the technical constraints. Several sites are starting to not support the older version in our labs, I'm not looking forward to the next upgrade. I'm not saying that Firefox shouldn't be innovating, but if we continue in a direction that appears we're copying Chrome, we're going to lose sense of uniqueness and BECOME Chrome. I don't feel that is good for anybody. <Message trimmed for length> Stephen Koppes -- At Work Network Administrator & Instructor Penn Commercial Business/Technical School 242 Oak Spring Road Washington PA 15301 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Office: 724.222.5330 ext.338 ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This electronic communication and any attachments hereto contain confidential information from Penn Commercial, Inc. This information is only for use by the intended recipient and use by any other party is not authorized. If you are not the intended recipient, or believe that you have received this electronic communication in error, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this communication or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic communication in error, please delete it from your system and notify us immediately by telephone at (724)222-5330 or by reply electronic mail to the person from whom this message was received. Thank you.
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