[GTALUG] Firefox is a pig

[Mauro Souza]

Once or twice a week I shut down Firefox, and reopen it. As it saves all
the open tabs, it drives down both CPU and memory usage, without losing my
tabs.
On Nov 16, 2014 6:34 PM, <self_same_self at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  What kind of plugins do you have?
> How many tabs and windows?
>
> *From:* D. Hugh Redelmeier
> *Sent:* ‎Sunday‎, ‎November‎ ‎16‎, ‎2014 ‎3‎:‎20‎ ‎PM
> *To:* GTALUG Talk
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> My desktop has been up for a week.
> I have a lot of firefox windows and many more tabs open.
> FF was getting sluggish.
>
> It has taken 4k minutes of CPU.  Not seconds.  So that is about 10 hours
> of CPU per day.
>
> Even quiting is taking a long time.  About 10 minutes so far.  At 99% of
> the CPU.  Yuck.  Maybe I'll kill it.
>
> It is taking 8G of virtual memory and 4.5 G resident (according to top).
>
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