Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote:
> That's because Firefox is now multiprocess.
>
> The main Firefox process handles the user interface, fetching
> web pages, decoding them, and some of the rendering work.
>
> The Web Content process(es) are fired off to run things that the
> web pages demand be run: JavaScript, CSS animations, weird media
> things. Mostly JavaScript.
>
> Killing them off won't help. You need to solve the underlying
> problem.
>
> I don't know what that is, exactly, but advertising and trackers
> now take up 90% of most web processing time and space. Running a
> good ad blocker like uBlock Origin will help a lot.
>
> -dsr-
>
>
How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all
the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken?
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