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Re:Revisiting how we build Firefox by chuckharmston on Monday July 06, 2015 @08:17PM (#9842924)
Firefox itself is quite fast [1]; if you're having issues, there's a good chance that it's due to an add-on [2]. A (historically; I'm unsure if this is still the case) particularly egregious offender [3] is AdBlock Plus, but µBlock [4] does come highly recommended.

[1] http://arewefastyet.com

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-m...

[3] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus...

[4] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ublock/

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Re:Revisiting how we build Firefox by gesman on Monday July 06, 2015 @08:20PM (#9842934)
I didn't say it slow. It is indeed fast. Thank you for that!

Until suddenly the show stops and I have to kill it via Taskmgr to inject new life into it due to memory suffocation.

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Re:Revisiting how we build Firefox by chuckharmston on Monday July 06, 2015 @08:25PM (#9842942)
Hmm...that doesn't sound like normal behavior; my uneducated guess would be that there's a specific webpage or extension with a leak. Next time it happens, it'd be fantastic if you could go to about:memory, save the reports, and file a bug with them attached:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox

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