From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Sep 15 22:04:16 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08978E0D060 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2017 22:04:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si) Received: from mail.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80::25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B824E7F616 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2017 22:04:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si) Received: from amavis-ori.ijs.si (localhost [IPv6:::1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3xv8Z336gRz5T for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:04:11 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ijs.si; h= user-agent:message-id:references:in-reply-to:organization :subject:subject:from:from:date:date:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:content-type:mime-version:received:received :received:received; s=jakla4; t=1505513049; x=1508105050; bh=fEE fYY6iUjyprnC7TN9o9XuMriMOYpi98ytv+NmSNHI=; b=kA1mrsBy1i0Y5j+QjNZ 7pp+Dk3eF5jfc+XrcGK697U2GqFpDS4Q/tmJtOOB2++0mWazQHKtG723/jK9P4vq DGpVgQAhErd8UvOsftpMv84N/guZV4fE4yEvbIFtYJx0U0Jsqjmh/JqHERj1WMSF WIEZT6K0654SVIi8ag4paYK0= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ijs.si Received: from mail.ijs.si ([IPv6:::1]) by amavis-ori.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [IPv6:::1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with LMTP id G3CE3gCb7giA for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:04:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mildred.ijs.si (mailbox.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80::143:1]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3xv8Z15wCQz5S for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:04:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from nabiralnik.ijs.si (nabiralnik.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80::80:16]) by mildred.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3xv8Z14W1nz1Q0 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:04:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sleepy.ijs.si (2001:1470:ff80:e001::76) by nabiralnik.ijs.si with HTTP (HTTP/2.0 POST); Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:04:09 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:04:09 +0200 From: Mark Martinec To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FireFox memory usage Organization: Jozef Stefan Institute In-Reply-To: References: <59BBCB8C.8060103@grosbein.net> <201709151805.v8FI5GDZ049767@gw.catspoiler.org> Message-ID: <0f80aaad8bab18b755e3e32cba4f528d@ijs.si> X-Sender: Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.3.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 22:04:16 -0000 >> Very recent versions of Firefox seem to have fixed this problem for >> me. >> I think this was fixed in the version 54 to 55 upgrade. I probably >> have >> 300-400 tabs open right now and Firefox memory consumption seems to >> have >> stabilized at a bit over 6 GB. It's been running for the last eight >> days. I have seen some improvements with the recent version of Firefox, but it's still giving me headaches when it gets slower and slower on some sites. Having heard about it on bsdnow.tv (episode 209), I'm now switching to www/iridium (from ports): # cd /usr/ports/www/iridium # cat pkg-descr Iridium is a free, open, and libre browser modification of the Chromium code base, with privacy being enhanced in several key areas. Automatic transmission of partial queries, keywords, metrics to central services is inhibited and only occurs with consent. WWW: https://iridiumbrowser.de/ Looks very promising (also on Windows) ! Mark