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Date:      Sun, 8 Nov 2020 12:46:02 -0800
From:      Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox memory usage
Message-ID:  <2b179660-fcfb-c676-b030-bff6abfd48a4@nomadlogic.org>
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On 11/8/20 10:04 AM, Mario Lobo wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 2:17 PM Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 11/8/20 8:51 AM, Mario Lobo wrote:
>>> Hi;
>>>
>>> Has Firefox just become a major memory gobbler ?
>> I've observed this as well.  I am not sure if it's just firefox or some
>> of the webapp's i have to use for work (gsuite/google docs, atlassian
>> and other javascript heavy sites).
>>
>> i can't even run slack in firefox as it slows down and eventually causes
>> my system to start swapping.
>>
>> regardless i've been needing to restart firefox usually by midweek to
>> get memory free'd up so the system doesn't go down.
>>
>> -pete
>>
>> --
>> Pete Wright
>> pete@nomadlogic.org
>> @nomadlogicLA
>>
>>
> Well .. I've always had several tabs opened  and with versions 7x wasn't
> like this.
>
> It became like this with 8x versions.
%100 agree - i have observed that as well.

-p

-- 
Pete Wright
pete@nomadlogic.org
@nomadlogicLA




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