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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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