Re: sluggish iceweasel

I have seen my iceweasel on my workstation continually grab up more and more memory and/or CPU.

I suspect it is either a or more like a combination of ad-ons that are causing a memory leak. I have reduced it to the minimum I need to feel comfortable (adblock plus, request policy, tab mix plus, etc.), and I generally run a st00pid amount of tabs...

Of course, I have a fairly beefy machine, so I can go for some period without having to restart.

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday 23 October 2013 14:07:21 Stephen Powell wrote:
> I have been using the iceweasel web browser for years; but in the
> past several weeks using an up-to-date jessie system, iceweasel has
> become very sluggish. Even the simplest operations, like scrolling
> the screen, have become so sluggish that iceweasel has become
> almost unusable. I just tried switching to Epiphany, not known for
> lightning speed, but Epiphany is quite snappy compared to iceweasel
> now. Is it just me? Or has someone else noticed this too? Is
> there relief in sight?

Not continuously, but repeatedly. Closing it and restarting it
usually helps. For a while.

I too have deserted to other browsers, but not for long. Iceweasel is
the only browser which I know how to view with no style, and I need
no style to be able to read many modern sites. So I just groan and
restart it.

Lisi

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