[GTALUG] Firefox memory usage (was GTALUG Meeting on Tuesday 10 October at 7:30pm)

[Jamon Camisso]

On 2017-10-01 06:58 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
>> Resource usage in web browsers depend on a given web site. The greatest
>> example is The Verge[0] a technology blog that requires 274 HTTP
>> requests and 3.0 MB of data[1]. According to the Firefox extension Tab
>> Data[2] on first load that take ~30MB of RAM and comes down to ~17MB
>> after all the requests get processed. Interesting side note this
>> article[3] can use anywhere from 40MB to 100MB of RAM.
>>
>> Browser developers build better optimized browsers while web developers
>> make heavy web pages which use up all the resources (usually with ads).
>>
>> Extensions also take out a lot of memory as while, checkout about:memory.
>>
>> Though your question is warranted, it's not really appropriate as it
>> will result a bunch of questions from the speaker (i.e. what web sites
>> are you visiting, how many extensions are you using, what's your
>> internet connection, etc).
>>
> 
> OK - - - -what you're saying is that 'its the customers fault'. That I'm
> visiting
> websites that just use too many resources.
> 
> Except - - - I don't run flash (haven't for a number of years in fact) and
> the
> longevity of a browser is minimal. (Where I go is very much business
> related
> and my business stuff is mostly related to computer information relating to
> my
> business projects and business information - - often from governmental
> agencies
> and I don't think that they generally generate web pages like the one you
> referred
> to above.) By that I mean that after a few days the
> best way to get through put out of the miserable POS is to kill it and then
> restart. That process feels quite a bit like M$ where when the system gets
> 'used' something hangs and the best solution is to reinstall. As a logic
> system
> that is, to put it quite bluntly, unacceptable.

Give Firefox 57 (beta or nightly builds)[1] a shot. I've been running
nightly for a few months now with no issues. Just as stable as 52 and
older releases, but exponentially faster. I'm not the only one who
thinks so[2].

Cheers, Jamon

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/quantum/
[2]
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/29/its-time-to-give-firefox-another-chance/