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I don't know if it's the site ads specifically, or Waterfox's code changes, but on both of my DeskMini units, which have Desktop-class Kaby Lake G4600 3.6Ghz dual-core with HyperThreading CPUs, and used to take very little CPU time (ok, still do), but for some reason, leaving even just one or two active tabs open to AT forums, causes the browser's RAM allocation to bloat up to 6GB or more (I've measured over 10GB of RAM usage!).
When RAM usage for the browser goes above 3GB or so, it suffers a marked decrease in responsiveness. For example, I'll have to hover the mouse cursor over a link for like 3-4 seconds, before it turns into the hand icon and allows me to actually click it.
Loading new tabs in this state is also affected.
Basically, it makes my desktop CPU, which is otherwise fairly powerful, to run like absolute crap.
I'm using the Intel HD 630 iGPU, the most powerful iGPU available from Intel, short of their special "Iris Pro" iGPU.
This is a fairly recent issue, that started not more than a couple of weeks ago.
Around then, and more recently, I've noticed that if I leave tabs open on this site, some of them are CONTINUALLY displaying a "loading" circle.
But I've also noticed that Waterfox's tab back-button history is also affected, by this constant reloading.
It used to be, that I could browse the main index, click a sub-forum, and open a thread, then click back twice, and get back to the main index.
Now, sometimes, my entire back-button history is FILLED with the SAME URL, because it was constantly re-loading, and I have to MANUALLY go back to the URL bar and delete the suffix on the URL to get back to the main index.
That's a minor pain, though, compared to the RAM bloat, and the browser unresponsiveness that comes with it.
I may be forced to use an ad blocker, again.
I did that once before, when this site had Flash ads, from IBM, that literally caused the browser to pause for like five seconds when loading. Such things are unacceptable to me.
When RAM usage for the browser goes above 3GB or so, it suffers a marked decrease in responsiveness. For example, I'll have to hover the mouse cursor over a link for like 3-4 seconds, before it turns into the hand icon and allows me to actually click it.
Loading new tabs in this state is also affected.
Basically, it makes my desktop CPU, which is otherwise fairly powerful, to run like absolute crap.
I'm using the Intel HD 630 iGPU, the most powerful iGPU available from Intel, short of their special "Iris Pro" iGPU.
This is a fairly recent issue, that started not more than a couple of weeks ago.
Around then, and more recently, I've noticed that if I leave tabs open on this site, some of them are CONTINUALLY displaying a "loading" circle.
But I've also noticed that Waterfox's tab back-button history is also affected, by this constant reloading.
It used to be, that I could browse the main index, click a sub-forum, and open a thread, then click back twice, and get back to the main index.
Now, sometimes, my entire back-button history is FILLED with the SAME URL, because it was constantly re-loading, and I have to MANUALLY go back to the URL bar and delete the suffix on the URL to get back to the main index.
That's a minor pain, though, compared to the RAM bloat, and the browser unresponsiveness that comes with it.
I may be forced to use an ad blocker, again.
I did that once before, when this site had Flash ads, from IBM, that literally caused the browser to pause for like five seconds when loading. Such things are unacceptable to me.
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