Re: firefox is slow and uses a lot of memory

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2021 20:03:04 UTC 
--------
Craig Leres writes:
> Starting with firefox 89 or so, I've found it starts using a LOT of 
> memory and actually makes the system sluggish and causes momentary X 
> freezes. I have 32G of ram/swap, is it reasonable for firefox to use 15G?

I noticed recently that firefox had started DNS's all bookmarks rather
aggressively I found something under about:config which made it stop,
(sorry cant remember which setting) but that made it at lot more workable
for me.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.