Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2021-01-29 Thread Marina & Steffen
Hi all My reply concerns this link: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/10/msg00392.html I could solve the problem for me (debian & Firefox) as follow: 1. Firefox-Settings 1.1. Edit -> Preferences -> General -> Performance - Disable «Use recommended performance settings» - Disable «Use

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-17 Thread David Wright
On Wed 17 Oct 2018 at 20:52:21 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Wed 17 Oct 2018 at 14:27:41 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 17 Oct 2018 at 13:53:45 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:26:46 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:42:19 (-0400), Felix Miata

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-17 Thread Brian
On Wed 17 Oct 2018 at 14:27:41 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 17 Oct 2018 at 13:53:45 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:26:46 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:42:19 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > > > David Wright composed on 2018-10-16 17:07

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-17 Thread David Wright
On Wed 17 Oct 2018 at 13:53:45 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:26:46 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:42:19 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > > David Wright composed on 2018-10-16 17:07 (UTC-0500): > > > > > > > (Actually, it would be useful to know how to

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-17 Thread Brian
On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:26:46 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:42:19 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > David Wright composed on 2018-10-16 17:07 (UTC-0500): > > > > > (Actually, it would be useful to know how to print out the about:config > > > page so tht it can be perused

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-16 Thread David Wright
On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:42:19 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2018-10-16 17:07 (UTC-0500): > > > (Actually, it would be useful to know how to print out the about:config > > page so tht it can be perused at leisure.) > > prefs.js is a plain text file in the profile

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-16 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2018-10-16 17:07 (UTC-0500): > (Actually, it would be useful to know how to print out the about:config > page so tht it can be perused at leisure.) prefs.js is a plain text file in the profile directory. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science.

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 13 Oct 2018 at 21:48:11 (-0400), bw wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 21:04:58 (-0400), bw wrote: > > > I would sure be interested in your method of running firefox on stretch, > > > without using extensions or addons from outside the debian

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 13 Oct 2018 at 23:17:34 (-0400), bw wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 21:04:58 (-0400), bw wrote: > > > > > I agree with this opinion, and also what Dan Ritter replied. Firefox > > > > > is > > > > > now unreliable on stretch and should be

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 13 Oct 2018 at 21:43:58 (-0400), bw wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, David Wright wrote: > > > > > My point > > > was that is ff needs extensions to be "secure" or reliable, and if the > > > only place to get them is from outside the debian repo, then logically, > > > the pkg belongs in

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-14 Thread John Crawley
On 14/10/2018 12.17, bw wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, David Wright wrote: On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 21:04:58 (-0400), bw wrote: I agree with this opinion, and also what Dan Ritter replied. Firefox is now unreliable on stretch and should be avoided. Security updates to a browser that crashes

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-12 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, October 12, 2018 02:42:16 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 12:57:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > In the sense of "stable" as Debian "stable": for a period of > around 2-3 years, the software at the beginning is about the > same as the software at the end, modulo security

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-12 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 12:57:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 18:45:16 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 06:15:06PM -0400, bw wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: > > running software that the Debian Project does not package, and I > >

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-12 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 18:45:16 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 06:15:06PM -0400, bw wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > That's because Firefox is now multiprocess. > > > > > > The main Firefox process handles the user interface, fetching > > > web pages,

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-12 Thread Pétùr
Le 10/10/2018 à 20:43, Sven Joachim a écrit : > Try killing xfsettingsd, that helps according to > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=909818#15. Thanks! I can confirm killing xfsettingsd fixes the issue (but Xfce is not really usable after that). I have launch again xfsettings

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 21:59:00 +0200 Pétùr wrote: > Le 09/10/2018 à 02:04, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > First, Firefox is using 50% of your RAM. That's way too much unless > > you have very little RAM to begin with. How much total RAM do you > > have? My system has 8GB. Firefox Quantum only

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-11 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 21:04:58 (-0400), bw wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 19:11:46 (-0400), bw wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > > On 11/10/2018 11:36, bw wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: >

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-11 Thread Pétùr
Le 10/10/2018 à 23:57, Dan Ritter a écrit : I don't know what that is, exactly, but advertising and trackers now take up 90% of most web processing time and space. Running a good ad blocker like uBlock Origin will help a lot. I use ublock origin (installed from firefox addons "store" not from

Re: Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-11 Thread dekks herton
On 10/08, Pétùr wrote: Le 08/10/2018 à 20:59, Patrick Bartek a écrit : On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 20:07:26 +0200 Pétùr wrote: Hi, I experience a very slow response time (and high cpu usage) for firefox in debian sid these days. I use the 62.0.3 version and the latency is particularly present at

Re: Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-11 Thread dekks herton
On 10/10, bw wrote: I would sure be interested in your method of running firefox on stretch, without using extensions or addons from outside the debian repositories? I never mentioned jessie, not sure what the reference is about? My point was that is ff needs extensions to be "secure" or

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 18:34:32 -0400 (EDT) bw wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote: > > > How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all > > > the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken? > > > > Install an extension

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 19:11:46 (-0400), bw wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > On 11/10/2018 11:36, bw wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > > On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote: > > > > > How exactly do you think stretch users should run an

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread bw
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 11/10/2018 11:36, bw wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote: > > > > How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all > > > > the xul-ext-* extensions are now

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 11/10/2018 11:36, bw wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote: How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken? I see that there is a webext-ublock-origin for sid but I have never

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 06:15:06PM -0400, bw wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > That's because Firefox is now multiprocess. > > > > The main Firefox process handles the user interface, fetching > > web pages, decoding them, and some of the rendering work. > > > > The

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote: How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken? Install an extension built for webextensions such as Adblock Plus 3.0 or later using Firefox Add-ons Manager?:

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 09:59:00PM +0200, Pétùr wrote: > Le 09/10/2018 à 02:04, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > First, Firefox is using 50% of your RAM. That's way too much unless > > you have very little RAM to begin with. How much total RAM do you have? > > My system has 8GB. Firefox Quantum only

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread songbird
Pétùr wrote: ... > Are other users of sid experiencing the same behavior ? not that i've noticed but i only use testing most of the time and sid/experimental only for selected items... songbird

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread Pétùr
Le 09/10/2018 à 02:04, Patrick Bartek a écrit : First, Firefox is using 50% of your RAM. That's way too much unless you have very little RAM to begin with. How much total RAM do you have? My system has 8GB. Firefox Quantum only shows on average 3 to 4% RAM usage even when streaming a video.

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-10-08 22:06 +0200, Pétùr wrote: > Top shows several threads with high cpu usage such as : > > PID USER PR NIVIRTRESSHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ > COMMAND > > 12452 petur20 0 4030664 1,9g 67248 R 72,4 50,1 2:54.34 > firefox > 12937 petur20 0 1830092

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread Pétùr
Le 08/10/2018 à 23:31, Ben Caradoc-Davies a écrit : I have slow startup and a brief hang during initial UI layout, but only with Adblock Plus enabled. Thanks for the report. I have the same behavior (and lag when creating new tab) but even with all the modules (including ublock) disabled.

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-08 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 22:06:18 +0200 Pétùr wrote: > Le 08/10/2018 à 20:59, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 20:07:26 +0200 > > Pétùr wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I experience a very slow response time (and high cpu usage) for > >> firefox in debian sid these days. > >> > >> I

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-08 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 09/10/2018 07:07, Pétùr wrote: I experience a very slow response time (and high cpu usage) for firefox in debian sid these days. I use the 62.0.3 version and the latency is particularly present at the startup. I have to wait few seconds before being able to enter text in the address bar. I

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-08 Thread Pétùr
Le 08/10/2018 à 20:59, Patrick Bartek a écrit : On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 20:07:26 +0200 Pétùr wrote: Hi, I experience a very slow response time (and high cpu usage) for firefox in debian sid these days. I use the 62.0.3 version and the latency is particularly present at the startup. I have to

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-08 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 20:07:26 +0200 Pétùr wrote: > Hi, > > I experience a very slow response time (and high cpu usage) for > firefox in debian sid these days. > > I use the 62.0.3 version and the latency is particularly present at > the startup. I have to wait few seconds before being able to

Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-08 Thread Pétùr
Hi, I experience a very slow response time (and high cpu usage) for firefox in debian sid these days. I use the 62.0.3 version and the latency is particularly present at the startup. I have to wait few seconds before being able to enter text in the address bar. I tried to reset (install