On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 09:21:48PM +0200, maillists.rul...@mailbox.org wrote:
> > OpenBSD derives some security by confining processes and web browsing > > with firefox is notorious for memory leaks. > > > > If you mobo supports it, more ram will also improve performance with > > firefox and other memory intensive tasks. > Firefox is pretty much my only memory intensive task. Thanks for sharing > your opinion, though! One more incentive to buy the new ram stick. > > > Other options: > > > > Adding the Firefox "forget" widget to your panel > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/forget-button-quickly-delete-your-browsing-his > tory > > and using it frequently. > That seems more like a workaround to me. > > > Consider www/iridium as an alternative browser. You can export your > > firefox bookmarks.html and import it into iridium. Although I do not > > have solid numbers, I thought it was better in this regard than firefox. > I wrote two little scripts [1] that open five reddit.com threads in each > browser an print memory usage. The result was (besides my amazement > about how much RAM the browsers ate), that Firefox used up ca. 1.4G and > Iridium ca. 0.9G. I obviously haven't set up the same extensions, but it > seems like Iridium would be able to help me. I'm going to try it some > more. Thanks for the tip! > > Best regards, > Richard Ulmer > > > [1] > ``` > printf 'Before starting Firefox:\n\t' > top | grep Memory > firefox --private-window 2>&1 > /dev/null & > sleep 5 # Wait for firefox to open > for i in c48qg7 c916tf c5n06b c0yvsz c2sco0; do > firefox --private-window \ > "https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/$i"; > done > sleep 30 # Wait for all tabs to load > printf 'After starting Firefox:\n\t' > top | grep Memory > ``` > > ``` > printf 'Before starting Iridium:\n\t' > top | grep Memory > iridium --incognito 2>&1 > /dev/null & > sleep 5 # Wait for Iridium to open > for i in c48qg7 c916tf c5n06b c0yvsz c2sco0; do > iridium --incognito \ > "https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/$i"; > done > sleep 30 # Wait for all tabs to load > printf 'After starting Iridium:\n\t' > top | grep Memory > ``` > You still did not tell which platform you are running. It matters. -Otto
