On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:26 +0000, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Van Snyder <van.sny...@sbcglobal.net> 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? > > FF used to behave like that for me, but the current ESR release from > Mozilla no longer does that. You haven't said what version of FF > you're > using, or anything about your hardware or software environment. So > it's > pretty difficult to say anything else.
Firefox 115.140esr (64-bit) from Debian. I don't like to install software from other sources because it frequently results in a mess of version incompatibilities. Intel Core i3 530 that claims to run at 2.93 GHz, but /proc/cpuinfo reports varying CPU clocks between 1.2 and 2.2 GHz, but all have the same bogomips. Gigabyte H55M-S2P motherboard. Both RAM sockets have 4 GB installed, but dmidecode says only one is working. Hmmm.
