Daniel Harris wrote: > I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on > earth is going on with firefox lately. It is terrible. So slow
Feeling you! My browsing experience has also been steadily declining. I have an i5-6600 with 48 GB of RAM, which is aging, but it shouldn't struggle having a few video tabs open. YouTube's UI is often actively lagging, with hover effects only appearing after a little while, delayed response to playback controls, etc. My blame however goes mostly towards YouTube's bloat. Firefox struggling with it is a symptom, not the cause. An interesting thing I observed is that these performance issues seem to correlate with the number of open tabs, and not to CPU or memory use - those aren't saturated at all. > and why is it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. Not just a Firefox issue, unfortunately. Multi-session use is problematic on the Linux desktop in general. I can't use XRDP while also logged in interactively as many application refuse to start and things break in odd ways (e.g. secret access). In my view, ideally, these graphical sessions would be much more flexible. When logging in remotely, you'd be able to pick up where you left on your local session and vice versa (think tmux) *or* start a new, full featured session. You'd be able to do a 'reverse RDP' to add a viewport on another machine as an extra monitor, etc. But that's just wishful thinking I'm afraid, I wouldn't even know where to begin, and it's a contested, opinionated space (*cough* Wayland transition). Sijmen
