Fri, 5 Jul 2019 08:09:26 -0700 "Heppler, J. Scott" <shep...@centurylink.net> > Richard Ulmer wrote: > > Hi all, > > after having Firefox running for some time (ca. 30min to 2h) my > > system seems to become slow. I get frequent freezes for several > > seconds, mpv instances start crashing and things like switching tabs > > in Firefox become a pain. > > > > I've got 4GB of RAM installed and when I look at htop after my system > > became slow, I can see that OpenBSD started swapping. When I close > > Firefox it takes several seconds and I can watch how my memory becomes > > free again in htop. My system is then again responsive. > > > > RAM prices seem to be low right now, but I don't want to spend money > > uneedingly and I didn't have this problem under Linux. Has anyone had > > similar experieces and noticed an improvement after a RAM upgrade? > > OpenBSD derives some security by confining processes and web browsing > with firefox is notorious for memory leaks. > > If you mobo supports it, more ram will also improve performance with > firefox and other memory intensive tasks. > > Other options: > > Adding the Firefox "forget" widget to your panel > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/forget-button-quickly-delete-your-browsing-history > and using it frequently. > > Under preference disable access to webcams, microphone etc. > > Consider www/iridium as an alternative browser. You can export your > firefox bookmarks.html and import it into iridium. Although I do not > have solid numbers, I thought it was better in this regard than firefox. >
Since you did not attach a single digit, number or figure, as measures of comparison, consider the above information opinion only and nothing more. In fact, if you switch the names of the programs, you cannot even notice. Try to be more specific, at least compare the memory usage: show numbers. Such fine advice, wasted over the simplest lack of information objection.
