On Wednesday 14 Jun 2017 13:10:16 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?
It may be hardware acceleration trouble. What video card are you using? I have noticed hard lock ups on FF, LibreOffice and even Kmail (more rare) on two different systems with AMD/Radeon video cards. The keyboard becomes totally unresponsive. This has started since the last Xorg/Mesa update, but I haven't had the time to look into it. The logs do not show anything meaningful. FF was particularly troublesome on version 45.8.0, but with 52.1.0-r1 seems to have settled down. -- Regards, Mick
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