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Firefox becomes slow after a couple of weeks open (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does anyone have this issue were firefox becomes slow if left open for a long time. In my case after a couple of weeks rendering becomes slow and when I use youtube for example if is laggy, just trying to change volume taka few second to show the volume bar. It also happens to my laptop at work. I have around 30 tabs open.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I had the same problem recently. Especially the youtube UI became very unresponsive and would take several seconds to respond. I have 96G ram...

I downloaded ESR instead. So far so good.

[–] Sanctus 2 points 4 days ago

Check the RAM usage of each tab. My Firefox is constantly open at work, albeit with anywhere from 1-10 tabs, and it never gets slow. Only time I restart it is when Firefox updates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Dawg I had like ~35 tabs open and hadn't restarted my PC in over three weeks. Fucking Firefox was sucking back 80 gigs of RAM. 80 fucking gigs.

On the bright side all the tabs were still loaded when I clicked through them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

I can't wait for Servo to be finished so I can move away from Firefox, it uses way too much memory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I'm so hyped as well! Just read their monthly update blog today actually! I'm mostly hyped because it's the first actual new web browser in a very, very long time, and that's just plain exciting!