nice paper on FireFox memory usage reduction

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On 02/04/2012 11:42 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> When I type "about:memory" into my firefox I get a lot of surprises.
> For example 36MB of ram is used by a compartment for
> www.facebook.com/;lugins/like...
> I don't even use facebook!  Its caused by those nasty "like" buttons.
> I'd like a non-rude way to block this kind of junk.  /etc/hosts
> entries seem rude.
>
> Google's plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbu... is taking 19MB.  And I
> don't use it either.

The Ghostery add-on 
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/> will disable 
all manner of things, not just +1 and FB. It's quite instructive to see 
what it's blocking, or not. You control what it blocks and what it 
doesn't. Since I started using it, Firefox feels snappy again.

> I'd love an "about:time".  As it is, I have tons of CPU being eaten by
> firefox and am too lazy to do a search through all my tabs to find the
> villain(s).

The TooManyTabs add-on 
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toomanytabs-saves-your-memory/> 
has brought memory and CPU consumption under control for me. I now have 
a bunch of named tab sets that are set aside for future use and Firefox 
doesn't take minutes to be ready to use after a restart as it did before 
I started using this.
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