OT - How to fix firefox running slow

[General of Darkness]

Worked perfectly for me so I thought I'd share.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwEZ56ltC6o

[crimethink]

WARNING: do not follow the instructions above unless you are willing to lose all your personalized settings for the browser.

The latest FF release has a massive problem with memory leak (worse than in the past). I caught it running at 2.2+ GB last night. It will slow to a crawl as it gets bigger & bigger. I do Control+Alt+Delete to shut down FF, then restart and reopen what I was working on.

[Glass]

cool I've been holding off updating FF. I am not happy with the changes they are making. Introducing things that now need a plugin to turn off WHEN they should have built it without those features and people can go get the damn plug in if they want it. Right click menu, I'm talking about you buddy.

[crimethink]

cool I've been holding off updating FF. I am not happy with the changes they are making. Introducing things that now need a plugin to turn off WHEN they should have built it without those features and people can go get the damn plug in if they want it. Right click menu, I'm talking about you buddy.

Some of the issues with recent versions of FF are due to Digital Restrictions Management forced on Mozilla by the Copyright Cartel. Mozilla had to give in, and include closed-source code to protect "intellectual property" or risk FF not working with many sites.

[PatColo]

What FF version is current for windoze now? My ubuntu version is 33.0 now. It's generally okay, when it's running after a new sys reboot & bleachbit (CCleaner), but the longer since the last reboot, the more cranky FF becomes-- like "freezing" with grey-screens for 5-30 seconds; going longer sometimes. Can't close it, and nothing else runs either (or I haven't learned the ctrl-alt-del equivalent in ubuntu), can't even warm-reboot, so after 1-2 mins I cold reboot.

I was thinking ubuntu was the prob, but now wonder if it isn't FF? FF has never asked me to upgrade in the few months I've been running ubuntu; but ubuntu does routine auto-updates and it's prolly updating FF in those, as FF comes installed in a stock ubuntu install. Now is the first time I've even checked the FF version #.

[crimethink]

What FF version is current for windoze now?


33.1




I haven't learned the ctrl-alt-del equivalent in ubuntu

http://askubuntu.com/questions/95192/what-is-the-equivalent-of-control-alt-delete

[gunDriller]

side topic - I just tried to upgrade to Ubuntu (from Win7 & XP).

But got slowed down in the area of installing Flash plug-ins ... and additional aps like web browsers.


as far as FF running slow ... one of the main reasons i do re-boots on the Win7 system.

[PatColo]

Been having terrible FF performance the past ~week or so... intolerable. Lasts maybe ~30 mins of normal/zippy performance; then like a switch got flipped, it slows to molasses mode; constant mouse pointers becoming a spinner, with the "[...] not responding" bar flashing across the top, off & on even when not loaoding or doing anything!

I've routinely gone & cleared cache inside FF, then still slow, I kill FF & run a CCleaner enema & restart... not long before it's back to molasses.

I did install the No-Script addon 1-2 weeks ago, but fully disabled it as a troubleshooting step; made no diff. :(

Anyone else finding this prob? Latest FF on win-10, btw. Had this combo all year, no significant problems.

[Ares]

Been having terrible FF performance the past ~week or so... intolerable. Lasts maybe ~30 mins of normal/zippy performance; then like a switch got flipped, it slows to molasses mode; constant mouse pointers becoming a spinner, with the "[...] not responding" bar flashing across the top, off & on even when not loaoding or doing anything!

I've routinely gone & cleared cache inside FF, then still slow, I kill FF & run a CCleaner enema & restart... not long before it's back to molasses.

I did install the No-Script addon 1-2 weeks ago, but fully disabled it as a troubleshooting step; made no diff. :(

Anyone else finding this prob? Latest FF on win-10, btw. Had this combo all year, no significant problems.

I stopped using Firefox, I still have it installed, just don't really use it anymore. I've been using Brave for about the last 6 months or so. Like it better than FF, and considering Mozilla has started actively funding Antifa (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/10/03/mozilla-awards-half-million-open-source-projects/), fuck em.

Make the switch, you'll like it better than FF. :)

https://brave.com/

[PatColo]

I just did a reboot, which included some kind of Win-10 update. Was reminded that the last time I rebooted; I cold-interrupted a Win auto-update... coz it pissed me off that I returned from a toilet or food run or something, to find it doing the update. Apparently it had thrown up one of those "Will install update in 10 seconds" windows, which you must cancel out of if it's a bad time. So that cold reboot when it said "Do not restart", could have hosed something up. Will find out soon enough.

Also updated adobe flash upon reboot-- could make a diff coz I watch/listen to so many Youtubes & mp3s.


I stopped using Firefox, I still have it installed, just don't really use it anymore. I've been using Brave for about the last 6 months or so. Like it better than FF, and considering Mozilla has started actively funding Antifa (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/10/03/mozilla-awards-half-million-open-source-projects/), fuck em.

Make the switch, you'll like it better than FF. :)

https://brave.com/

prolly not a bad idea; FF's open source & privacy appeal became history some years ago, as they got impossibly bloated.

hadn't heard anything about FF funding the (((antifa neo-fascist useful idiots))).

Does Brave have add-ons like Self Destructing Cookies, No-Script, Ad-Blocker, etc?

[Ares]

Does Brave have add-ons like Self Destructing Cookies, No-Script, Ad-Blocker, etc?

They are working on an API to handle Add-On's. It's still in Beta. Self destructing cookies, no. No-script, Ad-Blocker are built into the browser. :)

[crimethink]

I did install the No-Script addon 1-2 weeks ago, but fully disabled it as a troubleshooting step; made no diff. :(

That's odd...No Script is what has made Firefox still usable for me. It keeps the RAM usage below 1 GB. Before, the memory leak would take it up to 10 or more GB...and the machine would simply stop, despite a top-line i7 processor and plenty of RAM.

[PatColo]

That's odd...No Script is what has made Firefox still usable for me. It keeps the RAM usage below 1 GB. Before, the memory leak would take it up to 10 or more GB...and the machine would simply stop, despite a top-line i7 processor and plenty of RAM.


Yeah it's counter-intuitive. But I had white-listed all the sites I routinely visited, so provided I didn't have any unusual sites open, it wouldn't make any diff in memory usage.

Still acting the same after the reboot/win-update plus flash player update I mentioned above. So I'm still having to kill FF, CCleaner & restart about hourly or less.

This article from blackpigeonspeaks also points to Brave browser at the end, http://blackpigeonspeaks.com/de-google/


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[Jewboo]

After the Firefox 58 update it is noticeably much faster!

:D zippy page loading

[Cebu_4_2]

Sucks to be me...

Important - Firefox is ending support for Windows XP and Vista Firefox version (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/find-what-version-firefox-you-are-using) 52 will be the last complete update for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Security updates will be released, but no new features.
Why is Firefox support ending for Windows XP and Vista users? Firefox is one of the only browsers to offer any support for Windows XP and Vista. Microsoft itself ended support for Windows XP in 2014 (https://support.microsoft.com/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet) and will end support for Windows Vista in 2017 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet). Unsupported operating systems receive no security updates, have known exploits, and can be dangerous to use, which makes it difficult to maintain Firefox on those versions.

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