On 14/1/25 05:34, Daniel Harris wrote:
So the strange thing is (and this could be completely normal) that as I
am watching the process Manager, so I have 3 youtube pages open but no
videos playing, and without switching to any other tab, only the process
Manager tab. The cpu keeps spiking from .25% to over 100% on different
youtube processes. Not sure why it would need to do that on an idle tab.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk
<mailto:deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk>> wrote:
On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:49:49 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote:
> I generally work on being able to open and keep open, a Firefox
> window, for each GB of RAM, which seems to work most of the time,
with
> one or more Windows, having multiple youtube tabs open.
>
> at present, on a system with 128GB RAM, I have 121 Firefox
> windows,and, 56 LibreWolf windows, open. neofetch shows the
system has
> (at present) been up about 3 1/2days (I have been having electricity
> supply problems, otherwise, the uptime could have been longer.
Running bullseye in 8GB (½GB swap is unused), FF has 124 tabs listed.
However, only about a dozen are active (as listed by ps and topmem).
So that's really the statistic to report. All the rest of the tabs
have yet to be visited since FF was started.
I restart FF every morning, and it restores all the tabs from the
previous session. Now, were I to Ctrl-PageUp my way across all
124 tabs, the machine would grind to snail's pace of swapping.
So I don't.
The tabs are localised: there are clumps related to different
problems, so stuff I last looked at, say, a fortnight ago will be
many tabs to the left of where I'm working now. I use the ▽ at the
top-right to navigate around, so as to skip over intervening tabs
without waking them from their dormant state. Every few months maybe,
I have a killing spree, killing off many clumps, though the BBC
schedules at the extreme left, for example, have been there for years.
I've also run a second FF today, as a different user, just to
download a couple of bank statements. That browser will never
usually have more than two or three tabs, all on one site, and
I close them all before I quit that FF.
That said, I've not noticed any slowdown recently. The first instance
is not quick starting up, but that one generally has to compete with
the daily housekeeping that occurs after I boot up. Subsequent
instances are quick.
Cheers,
David.
What add-ons have you installed in Firefox?
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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