[GTALUG] Firefox is a pig

[David Thornton]

Browser != OS.

_even_ Chrome gets confused from time to time.

I don't think it's too much to ask to just "reboot" your browser.

david


On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 3:20 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:

> 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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