Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 09:16:29 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Firefox became much slower Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1711080909260.4766@aneurin.horsfall.org> In-Reply-To: <8aa83d2369d1caa5d702d43bd8a6c9b7@ultimatedns.net> References: <CALH631nS3epBAXG7cAVz3R=iNLtVRXXWc567YLSKwD88f7btNQ@mail.gmail.com>, <20171101142026.GA91788@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <8aa83d2369d1caa5d702d43bd8a6c9b7@ultimatedns.net>
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On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Chris H wrote: > FWIW Firefox has always leaked memory like water through a sieve. As a > result, no matter how many resources I have on any given system. I can't > leave FF open for any length of time, w/o having to restart it; else > system starts swapping until all resources are exhausted; then panic && > reboot. It got really bad around 53 or so; I wish their programmers (no doubt fresh out of school) would fix existent bugs instead of adding frilly new "features"' we don't all have terabytes of free memory. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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