On 6 March 2012 11:38, Phill Coxon <[email protected]> wrote: > Is Firefox getting more bloated, slower, buggy and leaking memory > everywhere?
Actually, if you've been following since Firefox 5, they've been progressively shrinking their memory footprint. I've seen clean installs running with only 70m memory usage, I kid not. Checkout the new "about:memory" page some time, lets you see exactly where its getting spent. The lions share is javascript, which means : A) Addon Scripting and B) Bloaty pages like facebook. ( Facebook is literally my biggest memory hog at 80Mg of JS on its own ) > Maybe it's just the plugins I use but I'm getting really tired of it. > Frequently my desktop is locking up completely with disk io so badly that > the desktop and mouse starts locking up for 30-60 seconds at a time. If I'm > lucky I can manage to kill firefox and wait a couple of minutes for the io > activity to calm down to get a responsive desktop back. I found this to be a symptom of having an old profile left around full of cruft. Somehow removing addons doesn't remove the cruft they bring. Try this: Create a new profile, install the same addons. You'll likely find it much faster ( additionally so, because the history .sqlite is now empty too ) > Kubuntu 11.04 64bit, 6Gb RAM, good fast CPU, lots of disk. Gentoo 64bit, a measly 4G of ram, an intel i5, heaps of disk, and *35* addons installed. Stock builds from nightly. Addons I recommend most: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cam/ # "Cleanest Addon Manager" because the default one is bloated like a whale https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fasterfox-9148/ # Fasterfox Lite https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fvd-speed-dial/ # FVD Speed Dial ( The stock one sucks, seriously ) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/geolocater/?src=api # Set your location without a GPS to trick "location aware" pages https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/html-notifications/ # Supported by GMail HTML5 notifications API for desktop notifications on new mail https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar/ # Omnibar, cos why waste screen with address/search when one bar can do both jobs https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/?src=api # Tidy up those sqlite databases ;) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/restartless-restart/ # easy way for a quick restart button https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/textarea-cache/ # remembers what you typed recently so you don't lose that forum post because of a website sucking -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
