From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Nov 8 20:45:55 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBCC92D4C85 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2020 20:45:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [174.136.98.114]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mail.nomadlogic.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CTmNy2Mc9z4qK3 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2020 20:45:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from [192.168.1.223] (cpe-24-24-163-126.socal.res.rr.com [24.24.163.126]) by mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 32848231 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO) for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2020 20:45:47 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Firefox memory usage To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <907cd12d-9f9c-3d64-748e-71de64782ab6@nomadlogic.org> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <2b179660-fcfb-c676-b030-bff6abfd48a4@nomadlogic.org> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2020 12:46:02 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4CTmNy2Mc9z4qK3 X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of pete@nomadlogic.org designates 174.136.98.114 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=pete@nomadlogic.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.30 / 15.00]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[174.136.98.114:from]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[174.136.98.114:from:127.0.2.255]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[nomadlogic.org]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:25795, ipnet:174.136.96.0/20, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2020 20:45:55 -0000 On 11/8/20 10:04 AM, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 2:17 PM Pete Wright 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