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Firefox becomes slow after a couple of weeks open (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does anyone have this issue were firefox becomes slow if left open for a long time. In my case after a couple of weeks rendering becomes slow and when I use youtube for example if is laggy, just trying to change volume taka few second to show the volume bar. It also happens to my laptop at work. I have around 30 tabs open.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Check the RAM usage of each tab. My Firefox is constantly open at work, albeit with anywhere from 1-10 tabs, and it never gets slow. Only time I restart it is when Firefox updates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's either you need more RAM or you must learn to use a tab group extension. Also, if it gets slow, just restart it.

Simple Tab Groups is a nice add-on.

My personal favourite is Sidebery. It has vertical tabs and easily navigatable via mouse wheel. You can even unload a tab. And has tons of customization options.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I ran into the same issue on my PC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Dawg I had like ~35 tabs open and hadn't restarted my PC in over three weeks. Fucking Firefox was sucking back 80 gigs of RAM. 80 fucking gigs.

On the bright side all the tabs were still loaded when I clicked through them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

I can't wait for Servo to be finished so I can move away from Firefox, it uses way too much memory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I'm so hyped as well! Just read their monthly update blog today actually! I'm mostly hyped because it's the first actual new web browser in a very, very long time, and that's just plain exciting!