On 14/1/25 05:34, Daniel Harris wrote:
> So the strange thing is (and this could be completely normal) that as I
> am watching the process Manager, so I have 3 youtube pages open but no
> videos playing, and without switching to any other tab, only the process
> Manager tab. The cpu keeps spiking from .25% to over 100% on different
> youtube processes. Not sure why it would need to do that on an idle tab.
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk
> <mailto:deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:49:49 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote:
>
> > I generally work on being able to open and keep open, a Firefox
> > window, for each GB of RAM, which seems to work most of the time,
> with
> > one or more Windows, having multiple youtube tabs open.
> >
> > at present, on a system with 128GB RAM, I have 121 Firefox
> > windows,and, 56 LibreWolf windows, open. neofetch shows the
> system has
> > (at present) been up about 3 1/2days (I have been having electricity
> > supply problems, otherwise, the uptime could have been longer.
>
> Running bullseye in 8GB (½GB swap is unused), FF has 124 tabs listed.
> However, only about a dozen are active (as listed by ps and topmem).
> So that's really the statistic to report. All the rest of the tabs
> have yet to be visited since FF was started.
>
> I restart FF every morning, and it restores all the tabs from the
> previous session. Now, were I to Ctrl-PageUp my way across all
> 124 tabs, the machine would grind to snail's pace of swapping.
> So I don't.
>
> The tabs are localised: there are clumps related to different
> problems, so stuff I last looked at, say, a fortnight ago will be
> many tabs to the left of where I'm working now. I use the ▽ at the
> top-right to navigate around, so as to skip over intervening tabs
> without waking them from their dormant state. Every few months maybe,
> I have a killing spree, killing off many clumps, though the BBC
> schedules at the extreme left, for example, have been there for years.
>
> I've also run a second FF today, as a different user, just to
> download a couple of bank statements. That browser will never
> usually have more than two or three tabs, all on one site, and
> I close them all before I quit that FF.
>
> That said, I've not noticed any slowdown recently. The first instance
> is not quick starting up, but that one generally has to compete with
> the daily housekeeping that occurs after I boot up. Subsequent
> instances are quick.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
What add-ons have you installed in Firefox?
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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