How Firefox Got Fast Again

Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by srean on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @12:15AM (#15692854)

This sounds genuinely odd, could you be using a add-on that is causing a problem ?

I leave Firefox open for months on end without problem and with several hundred of tabs open, multiple windows too. I do use a tab unloader, that unloads an inactive tab after a while. Its precisely because of this that other browsers are not suitable for me

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by philliphaydon on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:19PM (#15701217)

I loaded up Firefox 56, went to Engadget website, on a Friday, at work. Then was called away from my desk. Came back Monday morning and Firefox ballooned to 3.5gb of memory...

Never had such an issue with Chrome, but man FF57 is my new default. SO FAST. I don't care if I need to restart it this thing is awesome.

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by lc5G on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:15AM (#15693723)

Could you link the tab unloader addon you are using, and is it compatible with new firefox?

I have exactly the same problem as the one you replied to.

It seems like some resources never get cleaned up, so if I in the span of a day open 100 tabs and close them then I will not end up with much higher memory usage than initially.

I have investigated this with about:memory and while not seeing something conclusive I did sometimes see domains taking up memory which were not loaded in any tab (ghost windows) or high amounts of memory used for "media".

I will try disabling the handful of addons I use beside uBlock Origin which is too essential to disable.

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