On 12/11/24 12:08, 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?
My current daily driver is a Dell PowerEdge T30 with a Xeon E3-1225 v5
processor, 2 @ 8 GB ECC RAM in dual channel mode, and an Intel SSD 520
Series 60 GB:
2024-12-11 21:21:18 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ cat /etc/debian_version; uname -a; dpkg-query --show xfce4; dpkg-query
--show firefox-esr
11.11
Linux laalaa 5.10.0-33-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.226-1 (2024-10-03)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
xfce4 4.16
firefox-esr 128.5.0esr-1~deb11u1
The desktop usage experience is more than satisfactory.
I have installed the NoScript extension in Firefox. I typically enable
only enough JavaScript to get a site working. YouTube recently changed
their site such that videos stall after about a minute if google.com is
blocked. When I enabled google.com, Firefox became very sluggish.
The problem is not Firefox, the problem is corporations that want to
monetize WWW users via JavaScript.
David
