Package: Umleitung durch firefox-esr von
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/firefox
X-Debbugs-Cc: be...@judiz.de
Dear Maintainer,
I am using Debian for music production. The rendering of music is
time-critical: if the output is not provided in time, playback
will crackle and/or stutter.
When using firefox while working on music, there is often high system load
from firefox, especially if there are multiple tabs open. That limits
the amount of resources for music and makes crackles/stutters more
likely.
Chromium puts tabs to sleep that are not in use. Firefox has a similar
feature, browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory, but it seems to be disabled in
Linux by default. Please consider enabling this feature by default.
It is a common workaround to renice firefox, e.g.:
pgrep -f -w "firefox" | xargs renice --relative 5 {}
If the unloading by default is not feasible, please consider making it
easier to limit resource usage in other ways, e.g. by renicing firefox.
Thank you for your work!
Cheers
Michael
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
