DRAM Prices in ‘Freefall’

Re:DRAM Prices in ‘Freefall’ by pmoriarty on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:44PM (#19332161)

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.

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Re:DRAM Prices in ‘Freefall’ by magicalhippo on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:22AM (#19337237)

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).

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Re:DRAM Prices in ‘Freefall’ by Narishma on Friday March 08, 2019 @03:46AM (#19336055)

> Firefox without extensions really sucks

The only extension I use is uBlock Origin. I've never felt the need for anything else whether it's on Firefox or Chrome.

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