[thelist] Firefox / Latency / Graying out

Chris Dorer cdorer at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 18:28:34 CDT 2011


Question: Is your firebug active as an add-on?

I've found even without me using FB with it active, it easily shot over
100,000 in memory.

Only thing i can think of as being a mem hog in my world.

One thing I'm starting to do, is create firefox profiles.  One for WebDev,
one for my wife, and the other for me to cruise the web, not sure if this
helps, but thought i'd throw it out there.

Chris

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz> wrote:

> There have been a few posts this past year about Firefox, possibly memory
> leaks, etc.  I'm just wondering about a problem which I'm encountering more
> and more frequently.  It used to be that if I go to a page with a lot of
> records, say 1000, pulled from a database, that it would take a few seconds
> extra to paint the page and the table. Along the way the browser might gray
> out momentarily, then the page is fine.  This is happening much more
> recently, with more websites.
>
> Just a minute ago I had several tabs open,  inactive, the pages had loaded
> and all I was doing was going back and forth to read some content. As I was
> trying to fill out a form, the latency was horrific and Firefox pulled off a
> repetitive gray out.  When it happens you wait a few seconds to have a
> minute and when for the cursor to regain life.  To fill out the form I
> resorted to writing the text in a text editor, then copy/paste.  What a
> lovely experience.
>
> Quitting/restarting Firefox helps but eventually it builds up.  It feels
> like some websites are more of a challenge than others.  Once they gain
> grip, you're out of luck. Occasionally after you quit Firefox it won't
> restart because there is a "sleeping" process running which you have to kill
> first.
>
> How do you determine with problems like these whether they are 1) browser,
> 2) website or 3) computer? 4) other
>
>
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