nice paper on FireFox memory usage reduction

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 19 15:48:24 UTC 2012


| From: CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
| Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:32:39 -0500

| 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.

| 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 got around to trying ghostery recently.

My FF got sluggish again (about:memory wouldn't complete), so I
restarted it, and did an about:memory.  Now ghostery is taking 26MB,
about 50 times!  Total: 1.517 GB.
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists





More information about the Legacy mailing list