On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 11:06:57AM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I find that Firefox tends to slow down and consume more memory over > time, presumably because some tab is doing a lot of work. However the > usual process listings from 'top' or 'glances' just show a bunch of > fairly cryptic threads such as: > > 85.4 20.3 7.12G 3.11G 2704 poc 2h55:08 45 0 R 391K 0 > /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 5 -isForBrowser -prefsLen > 291 -prefMapSize 29096 > ... > and so on, so it's hard to know which one is associated with which tab (or > tabs). > > Does anyone have a cheat sheet to help in pinning down the culprit(s)?
There's a weirdly-well kept secret — Firefox has its own built-in "top"! Check this out: about:performance in the firefox toolbar. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
