On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 20:39 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 12:08:40PM -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets > > really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a > > minute or > > two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 > > processes > > running. Memory is half full, and swap is about 10% used. When I > > kill > > Firefox and restart, things go back to normal for a few hours. > > > > What alternatives that aren't such pigs do you recommend? > > > > If you're still running Debian 12.5 - you can check by listing the > contents of /etc/debian_version > which should read 12.8 - update Debian to the current version.
Debian 12.6. There's a KDE widget running that periodically reminds me of available updates, but I guess it's not paying attention well enough. I'll run "apt update." > Don't leave Firefox running for days with tabs open - close it > periodically? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. If I close the windows manually, firefox forgets what it was doing, so I kill it periodically. Maybe more frequently than I have been doing. > Swap 10% used seems very high. You're running the firefox-esr version > supplied in Debian stable? Using the version from Debian stable. > All the very best, as ever, > > Andy Cater > (amaca...@debian.org) >
