On 20/05/15 01:58, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2015 01:28:26 +0200 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2015-05-20 00:37, Carl Hartung wrote:
The primary culprit was the video download helper add-on.
Please, tell the exact name so that we can avoid installing it :-)
Hi Carlos,
I had no idea there were so many! :-)
Here's the one: Video DownloadHelper 5.2.0
Caveat: YMMV! The problems I described weren't strictly _caused_ by this add-on but they were definitely seriously exacerbated by it. You might be fine if your system has >4GB RAM and/or you don't keep open so many web pages (with the commensurate Flash / AJAX / jQuery components) as I do throughout my workday. I hate to point fingers at an otherwise very helpful add-on.
regards,
Carl
Video DownloadHelper has been well known as one of the biggest causes of grief amongst Firefox extensions for a long time. That and one of the popular AdBlock plugins. So much so that I think Mozilla would have liked to have blocked them in the past if that weren't so unethical, due to the proportion of crashes and bugs that could be traced back to both. If those and Flash could be eliminated from the browser Mozilla's bug tracker could probably be reduced in size by three quarters. That being said, I've had Video DownloadHelper installed a long time on more than one system. Although at times I did disable it by default, I've left the new 5.x version running since it's not yet given me problems. I have 4GB of RAM on my laptop but amongst the many tabs and tab groups I always have open, I never leave more than one or two that have video / Flash components in view. I've found that sometimes merely scrolling up or down the page so that the video / animation content is well beyond the boundaries of the visible browser window causes the CPU / GPU load to go down. Especially YouTube has begun misbehaving if it is left open whilst there is another tab somewhere with video content. I use the nVidia proprietary drivers. Otherwise FF remains for me very stable. It's also worth limiting the number of tabs open that have active updating content in them, like Twitter or sports live updates. Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org