Do you have ublock origin and privacy badger installed? Those might limit firefox's memory use.
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Ali Corbin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 10:07 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Firefox 61.0.1 on Xubuntu 16.04. > > > > I have tried Chrome, Midori, and lots of other browsers, but they all > > fail to provide all the functionality that I need. And they tend to be > > just as gluttonous as Firefox anyway. > > > > The big problem is CPU usage. The computer has 16GB of RAM, and I never > > come close to using all of it. But Firefox usually takes most of the > > CPU. This leaves me little for ripping and encoding movies, which is > > also very CPU intensive. > > > > I found a little program called cpulimit, which doesn't quite work. I > > launched Firefox yesterday with 'cpulimit -l 20 firefox' and right now > > Firefox itself is taking a mere 3% of the CPU, but there are currently > > four Firefox child processes ('contentproc') and one of them is taking > > 80%. This wouldn't be annoying if it was just a temporary usage while > > it was loading a web page or something, but it has been stuck at 80% > > for the past hour, even though all Firefox windows are minimized. > > > > The only way to get Firefox to behave is to kill it completely. And if > > I then re-launch it, even though I have it restore the previous > > session, it initially takes little of the CPU, but by a couple hours > > later it is back to taking almost all of it. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > In the past I've used 'nice' to invoke nasty batch processes, to keep > them > from totally taking over the cpu. I've never tried it with a browser, but > it might be interesting to see if it helps any. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
