type this In the address bar: about:performance click on the memory column and sort by biggest first. see what specific web pages are using excessive ram (usually close to 1gb or more). click on the tab: entryh that sucks and a X will appear on the far right, and click the X and the specific tab gets killed.. weather.com and reddit.com are the ones that typically misbehave for me.
I think firefox needs a simple feature that basically says if any tab uses X kill/restart it. On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 10:12 PM Michael Hennebry <henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > > My firefox on F38 freezes a lot. > I get "Firefox" is not responding a lot. > At one time, I thought it was because of too many windows and tabs open. > I closed several windows. > Shutting it down and bringing it back up often helped, > but not necessarily for very long. > According to top, firefox freezes even when the load > average is less than two, most of swap is free > and neither firefox nor its minions are near the top of top. > My new suspicion is that it waits for something > that does not happen often enough. > How do I diagnose this? > > -- > Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu > "I was just thinking about the life of a pumpkin. Grow up in the sun, > happily entwined with others, and then someone comes along, > cuts you open, and rips your guts out." -- Buffy > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
