On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM Joel Roth via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> 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!!
>
I've found that if I park the browser on a "New Tab" (commonly used 2
or 3 at either end of the page" that resource consumption
most often also retreats. If it doesn't - - - well then I use the
"about:processes" url to kill the offending tab(s).

HTH