[arch-general] Firefox slowness
Perhaps this is just me, but it feels like Firefox has gotten super slow / hogging lots of CPU recently. Anyone else seeing this? And/or know what might be causing it? (Some recent upgrade to the package perhaps?) Thanks, DR
On 11/12/20, David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net> wrote:
Perhaps this is just me, but it feels like Firefox has gotten super slow / hogging lots of CPU recently. Anyone else seeing this? And/or know what might be causing it? (Some recent upgrade to the package perhaps?)
Just in case, if you're using the Sync function, it takes some time and CPU work at start up, I usually open Firefox and check until that syncing is done. Best regards.
On 11/12/20 12:36 PM, riveravaldez via arch-general wrote:
On 11/12/20, David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net> wrote:
Perhaps this is just me, but it feels like Firefox has gotten super slow / hogging lots of CPU recently. Anyone else seeing this? And/or know what might be causing it? (Some recent upgrade to the package perhaps?)
Just in case, if you're using the Sync function, it takes some time and CPU work at start up, I usually open Firefox and check until that syncing is done.
Best regards.
I don't use sync'ing. I'm guessing this must be something having to do with Firefox 82 though. DR
On 12.11.20 18:46, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
I'm guessing this must be something having to do with Firefox 82 though.
I'm also on 82.0.3 already, without noticing problems. So I'd really recommend checking with a clean profile :) Regards, LuKaRo
On 11/12/20 12:50 PM, LuKaRo wrote:
On 12.11.20 18:46, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
I'm guessing this must be something having to do with Firefox 82 though.
I'm also on 82.0.3 already, without noticing problems. So I'd really recommend checking with a clean profile :)
Thanks for the feedback. After a big more research, it looks like there were a couple of tabs that I had open that were sending/receiving data in the background (and/or had some advertising code running on them) that were hogging CPU. When I closed those down things quieted down. That said, these are the same tabs/sites that I've been using every day for months now, so I still think something changed - either in the FF 82 software, or in the web pages themselves - to cause the CPU spikes. I'll also look into the possibility of using a new profile when I have some time. But unfortunately that's something that would take some time to do, as I have a lot in my current profile that I don't want to lose. (Open tabs, bookmarks, etc.) Thanks, DR
On 11/12/20 3:27 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
On 11/12/20 12:50 PM, LuKaRo wrote:
On 12.11.20 18:46, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
I'm guessing this must be something having to do with Firefox 82 though.
I'm also on 82.0.3 already, without noticing problems. So I'd really recommend checking with a clean profile :)
Thanks for the feedback.
After a big more research, it looks like there were a couple of tabs that I had open that were sending/receiving data in the background (and/or had some advertising code running on them) that were hogging CPU. When I closed those down things quieted down.
Not 100% sure yet, but it looks like switching over to the zen kernel may have also helped here as well. DR
On 11/12/20 6:46 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
On 11/12/20 12:36 PM, riveravaldez via arch-general wrote:
On 11/12/20, David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net> wrote:
Perhaps this is just me, but it feels like Firefox has gotten super slow / hogging lots of CPU recently. Anyone else seeing this? And/or know what might be causing it? (Some recent upgrade to the package perhaps?)
Just in case, if you're using the Sync function, it takes some time and CPU work at start up, I usually open Firefox and check until that syncing is done.
Best regards.
I don't use sync'ing. I'm guessing this must be something having to do with Firefox 82 though.
DR
FWIW I am experiencing the same, slowness of firefox especially when starting up. I have also firefox version 82.0.3 but the apparent slowness was also present in earlier versions. I am using firefox under windows 10. If cleaning the profile did help please notify us on the list. ~Z
On 12.11.20 18:23, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
Perhaps this is just me, but it feels like Firefox has gotten super slow / hogging lots of CPU recently. Anyone else seeing this? And/or know what might be causing it? (Some recent upgrade to the package perhaps?)
I haven't had any similar issues so fare (Firefox is my main browser). However, my only Add ons are uMatrix + uBlock Origin, and I've enabled the "Never remember history" options in settings so Firefox will basically clear user data on each exit. Have you tried using a fresh profile with default settings and without your Add-ons for a while, to see if this fixes the issue? Try firefox -p from the command line to open the profile chooser, and create a new profile. The profile is where your settings, history, bookmarks etc. are kept, so a new profile will basically mean factory reset, but with the option to switch back to your old profile at any time. Regards, LuKaRo
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