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Date:      Fri, 02 Jul 2021 20:03:04 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Craig Leres <leres@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: firefox is slow and uses a lot of memory
Message-ID:  <202107022003.162K34kg050615@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <37fe2be4-a142-c49e-e1b0-0e9a8fd07a74@freebsd.org>
References:  <37fe2be4-a142-c49e-e1b0-0e9a8fd07a74@freebsd.org>

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Craig Leres writes:
> Starting with firefox 89 or so, I've found it starts using a LOT of 
> memory and actually makes the system sluggish and causes momentary X 
> freezes. I have 32G of ram/swap, is it reasonable for firefox to use 15G?

I noticed recently that firefox had started DNS's all bookmarks rather
aggressively I found something under about:config which made it stop,
(sorry cant remember which setting) but that made it at lot more workable
for me.

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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