Am 14.08.2015 um 01:21 schrieb Yamaban:
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:57, James Knott wrote:
On 08/13/2015 06:10 PM, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Am 13.08.2015 um 23:55 schrieb Christopher Myers:
Out of curiosity, is there any way to tell why Firefox is eating up tons of memory, when it's only been running for a few hours, and just has a couple of tabs open? I'm using FF39 on oS 13.1.
It is an error by design, or a bug, but it seems that it is intentionally. FF keeps all the "seen" sites in memory and never again discards them until you completely close all instances of the same profile (close all windows).
It is very annoying, but it is as is...
I have also noticed that Firefox will bog down over time, until I kill it and restart.
For anyone that experience that kind of bloat, try to disable your addons and plugins, restart, try the same load of tabs and pages.
IMHO in most cases of "creeping" bog over time, the cause is one or more addons.
Sadly, "Adblock Plus" and "NoScript" are part of the cause, but not the ugliest anymore.
"Ghostery" and "Flash-Player" are one of the worst offenders.
To keep an eye on memory consumption, try the "memchaser" [1] addon, nice info, and easy access to forced memory compaction.
For deeper insight where FX uses what on memory, have a look at the internal page "about:memory". Short intro:
- Load page - click on "Measure" in the "Show memory reports" section - You can aslo "force" a memory free-up with the buttons in the "Free memory" section.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/memchaser/
- Yamaban
I was searching seriously about this problem and also found the info as above. My flash player is deactivated. The add ons for memory freeing/compaction do not really help. It's not about many tabs. It's just that it keeps all the old stuff in memory, even of closed windows of the same profile. It doesn't matter how many tabs/windows are actually open. I have a large link-list of (mostly tumblr-) pages I want to look at. Links open in a new window, which I close after having seen it, to go back to the link list and open the next site in a new window. After a while (depending on the number of sites opened and closed and of their content) memory fills up. When reaching more than 2GB (of my total 32) ff gets remarkably slower. When reaching 4GB it gets virtually unusable. The only "solution" I found, is to terminate ff completely. -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona http://www.daniel-bauer.com room in Barcelona: https://www.airbnb.es/rooms/2416137 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org