On 10/02/2025 13:12, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
On 10/2/25 16:06, David Wright wrote:
On Sun 09 Feb 2025 at 21:18:31 (-0600), William Torrez Corea wrote:
Firefox is using much memory and using swap memory:[...]
Kill it and restart it occasionally.
Rather than kill it, what I do is:
Ctrl Shift J # open Browser Console
Ctrl Alt R # restart firefox
I am against suggestions to *kill* applications as well, unless it is
the last resort measure. It increases chance to lost data stored in
browser profile (list of opened tabs, passwords, etc.).
It might be easier to close the browser (quit), start it again and to
restore previous session from the History menu.
Avoid stepping through the open tabs with Ctrl-PageUp/Down, as that
consumes more memory with each tab. Instead, click on the ▽ button
in the extreme topright corner, which lists all the tabs, then select
the one you want. You can also close tabs, with ×, from this list.
This recommendation is reasonable from my point of view since browsers
may discard unused tabs to save memory. Another way to switch to a tab
is to use search from the location bar ([Ctrl+L] to focus it), "%" to
limit options to tabs and type a part of page title or its URL.
<https://support.mozilla.org/kb/address-bar-autocomplete-firefox>
