On 1/9/25 1:05 PM, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I've been happy with FF, mainly due to there being a wide
> variety of plugins for ad and tracker blocking and various
> other purposes.
>
> One gripe is that as I open more tabs, FF begins to use all
> of my CPU.
>
> Periodically I have to kill and restart it. That works okay,
> but it seems like the type of manual fi-diddling I'd prefer to avoid.
>
> I'd consider switching to another browser with a sufficient
> plugin ecosystem.
>
> I've also thought of writing some utility to watch FF and
> popup a window prompting "FF CPU high usage alert! Kill and restart?"
>
> Do other people have this issue? How do you deal with it?
>
> Thanks!!
>

The “about:processes” URL brings a page with the memory and CPU usage for each process. With that, it is easy to close and reopen the offending tab (which in 99% of the cases is LinkedIn).

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