On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:00 +0000, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > Does your version of Firefox have the task manager feature - here, > (using > FF 115.18.0esr on Windows) that's offered via the application > hamburger > menu (at extreme rhs of toolbar in my FF) - More tools - Task Manager > ... and it runs in one tab a monitor tool showing memory & cpu > consumption of each of the tabs that FF is processing. You might be > able > to judge better which of your tabs are the hogs, if you can run that.
Thanks for drawing attention to this. It's very informative. One real pig is facebook. Even though I have one tab open that identifies itself as Facebook, the Task Manager shows two tasks, consuming 108 MB and 34 MB (but the sizes keep changing). I don't have any google tabs open, but Task Manager shows one occupying 79 MB. Another surprise was a tab that I keep open displaying the Real Time Operating Grid at the Energy Information Administration (EIA). It's usually occupying 90 MB but if I scroll the page it jumps to 216 MB. I use KDE. One feature of the window manager is that I can "window shade" a window by double-clicking in the title bar, which reduces its screen space to its title bar — and double clicking unrolls it. A Firefox add-on that idles any tasks in "rolled up" windows would be useful.
