Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote:
> 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).

That will do it, thanks!!





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Joel Roth