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07-02-2013, 13:04
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Firefox hogging the CPU
Yesterday I noticed that Firefox was running very slow. I had a look at task manager and its running up to 50% of the CPU usage.
I re installed and still it runs slow. Anyone else having issues with it? Have just tried Chrome for the 1st time. Seems very quick but just not sure of the layout just yet. |
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07-02-2013, 13:15
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I think you'll find that all the browsers have these kinds of issue for some users, while others have no problems.
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07-02-2013, 13:18
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07-02-2013, 16:23
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Firefox is a hog on CPU and memory.
Open a few tabs and that's 300MB gone. It has a ridiculous memory footprint, i can't imagine how they could have made it so inefficient. |
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07-02-2013, 16:27
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07-02-2013, 18:02
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Yesterday, I was running both SeaMonkey and Firefox side by side. SeaMonkey (my primary browser, built upon the
same Mozilla/Gecko technology under the hood as Firefox) had 2 windows open, with a total of 23 tabs, 12 in one, and 11 in the other. It was using about 480MB of RAM in total, which is fairly reasonable ... not too bloated IMHO. Meanwhile, Firefox had only 1 window open, with only 7 tabs, and that was eating up a staggering 1010MB RAM! A handful of browser tabs using nearly 1GB of RAM, even without any Flash or Java stuff running, is ridiculous! I've also found Chrome to almost as bad as Firefox for eating RAM, using between 90-125MB of RAM per tab.  SeaMonkey might not be to everyone's taste in the GUI department, with it being based upon the classic browser suite paradigm from the heydays of Netscape, but they must be doing something right to cut out so much bloat! |
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07-02-2013, 18:12
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Firefox has finally sorted itself out (for now). 10-15% CPU usage wile on Digital Spy and averaging 167mb.
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08-02-2013, 16:49
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Some extensions are known to cause slow-downs, the ones which I enable only when I need them are Xmarks and DownloadHelper
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/speedu...forming-addons |
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08-02-2013, 17:21
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You could try Opera and see if that is any better.
Been using Opera for over 10 years now, and can't say I've ever had any issues with it. |
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10-02-2013, 10:33
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2 screen shots taken 1 minute apart showing the cpu usage of Firefox.
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/n...ps36a96aa8.jpg http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/n...ps707e4eed.jpg It only has high usage for a few minutes then goes back to normal. |
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