NFN Smith wrote on 4/8/2020 4:38 PM:
flyguy wrote:
You may want to disable any add-on or try SM in safe mode. Or perhaps upgrade
your version of SM.
I am using Adblock Plus, disabled for the alternet.org site. If I select
"disable everywhere", the cpu usage goes from 60% to 40-50%. Disable the
extension and cpu usage goes to ~20%; closing the alternet.org tab takes it to ~8%.
So, something about the alternet.org site makes SM 2.49.4 busy, having Adblock
enabled makes SM very busy, even if it's disabled for that site. That seems odd.
Should I be using a different adblocker? Or just disable it for troublesome sites?
If you're running Seamonkey 2.53.1, be aware that the release notes indicate that
there's no current version of AdBlock Plus that's supported. For that kind of
functionality, there is still uBlock Origin, where the dev continues to keep
support for an XUL version.
Take a look at http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.1/ and note
that version 2.9.1 of Adblock Plus is known to cause memory and CPU issues, and it
is recommended to switch to uBlock . I did that about a year ago, and I've found
that while it took me a while to get used to uBlock's different philosophy and UI,
I generally like it better than Adblock.
Moving to uBlock may solve some of your problems, but perhaps not everything,
especially if you have lots of blocking rules in place.
I've found that I occasionally have resource issues, especially if I leave
Seamonkey open overnight (and I normally leave my machine running 24/7). When
that happens, Seamonkey tends to become less responsive, and a check of the
Windows task manager shows lots of CPU activity and memory usage in excess of 1.5
GB. A few days ago, I was filling out a form that had a lot of entries (and where
every entry had script processing). By the time I got to the end of the form, the
last few entries were giving me script timeout errors.
I do make quite a bit of use of extensions, but most of them are small. However,
with the combination of uBlock and NoScript active, I'm inclined to believe that
those (either individually or together) are the primary culprits. I have been long
suspicious of the possibility of memory leaks, but that's only a guess. Last
summer, I changed out my machine -- it has 16 GB of RAM in it and an SSD drive,
and the high resource usage problem seems to be less. But I still have to
remember either to make sure I close Seamonkey at the end of the day, or if I
start the day and find it open, restarting before beginning working.
Smith
I've noticed SM using a lot of memory after a few days; restarting it can cut the
memory use in half. I do leave it open at night, but the computer is sleeping
then. Since so many sites now complain about me using an adblocker, I find I'm
using it less and less, so my plan is to keep AdBlocker disabled and see how I
like things.
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