Re:DRAM Prices in ‘Freefall’
by copperx on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:17PM
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It's 2019 now. Try Firefox again. For me it feels faster than Chrome. And it has a reader view. That's on Linux and on Windows. On Mac, I admit, Chrome feels faster. But you have Safari.
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Firefox's speed depends a lot on which extensions you use.
I use a bunch, like uBlock Origin, uMatrix, Tridactyl, Tree Style Tab, and Stylus, and Firefox slows down to a crawl for me when I have more than about 8 tabs open.
Now, some might advise not to use extensions, but using extensions is half the reason that I use Firefox at all in the first place, as Firefox without extensions really sucks.
Re:DRAM Prices in ‘Freefall’
by magicalhippo on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:22AM
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I use uBlock Origin, uMatrix and Greasemonkey, and FireFox is nice and fast with several dozen tabs open for weeks at a time.
Slack leaks memory like there's no tomorrow, but that's on Slack. I just close the Slack tab and force a full GC/CC cycle and I get my memory back.
I'd do a binary search of sorts, disable half of the extensions and see if performance is still bad or not etc, to narrow it down to the offending extension(s).