FF took memory and didn't give it back. If you read the talk about it blame was often put on extensions. But extensionless it did the same after a short while. The memory handling was from the start a mess. Its been used as a bit of a trojan horse to dump extensions in the process of becoming chrome mate-able. Its memory is better now, though still greedyish, recoverable. But i don't think most of that is due to ditching the orphans.
J. Mark S. wrote: > > This is real hoarding though. Giving it more memory would probably make > things worse. Gradually, no matter how many tabs I have open, the total FF > memory grows. Somewhere around 2g it becomes unstable and crashes if I > don't restart first. Typically I need to restart once or twice a day. By > contrast, I can leave Chrome up for days and it stays down around 300m per > thread. It's looking like the new FF will avoid that problem, but of course > I'm still using it lightly. > > It's entirely possible that one or more of the extensions that I'm using > is locking in the memory. The way extensions use memory is part of the > reason for the change, the people at Moz say. > > Mark > > On Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 1:50:19 PM UTC-8, TonyM wrote: >> >> Mark, >> >> On Memory hoarders, for Chrome and Firefox, I recently realised that 90% >> of what I do is in browsers, at least with the work on my plate, and my >> growing network of tiddlywikis on my desktop class laptop.. >> >> As a result I realised I needed the browsers to be first class citizens, >> as apps on my computer and I have configured them to use more memory than >> they do by default. My new computer has 16GB of RAM so giving 1-2GB a >> browser where I spend most of my time was a no brainer. >> >> I still have performance issues occasionally, I have still not >> identified, they come when I am tired and less patient, and cant think in >> the gaps. They seem to be some indeterminate issues with internet speed, >> and browser performance. >> >> Regards >> Tony >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/39d74f9a-a59c-43cf-b550-d7dc017448fc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
