firefox gets pokey over time...

[OBLAMA2009]

firefox gets really slow after a few days, delayed reactions to scrolling etc... is there anything that can be done about this? i prefer chrome, but it has that awful issue of not being able to play video after a while...

 

[lxskllr]

Is it leaking memory, perhaps due to an addon? You could close it at the end of each day. I don't really have problems with my setup.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

Is it leaking memory, perhaps due to an addon? You could close it at the end of each day. I don't really have problems with my setup.

just closing doesnt seem to help, do u think i need to reboot?. chrome doesnt seems to do this over time...

 

[lxskllr]

You shouldn't /need/ to reboot. That's unexpected behavior. What's your ram use look like when Firefox gets slow?

 

[Cerb]

http://www.crystalidea.com/speedyfox

Try that, or try to find a current add-on with similar functionality (here's one). It might not be compacting often enough. SQLite is, was, and will be, a bad idea for FF, and has caused issues since...well, practically forever.

CCleaner can do the same job, but one errant click and *poof* goes profile data 🙂.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

You shouldn't /need/ to reboot. That's unexpected behavior. What's your ram use look like when Firefox gets slow?

maybe 800-900mb, i doesn things like the scrolling with the wheel becomes delayed, switching between tabs is delayed etc...

 

[OBLAMA2009]

http://www.crystalidea.com/speedyfox

Try that, or try to find a current add-on with similar functionality (here's one). It might not be compacting often enough. SQLite is, was, and will be, a bad idea for FF, and has caused issues since...well, practically forever.

CCleaner can do the same job, but one errant click and *poof* goes profile data 🙂.

im using linux here, no linux version?

 

[pcslookout]

There a problem with your computer.

Firefox works fine here.


What version and addons are you running?

 

[Cerb]

im using linux here, no linux version?

Sorry, wrong forum in my mind, at the time. In Linux, you have options. I use https://github.com/graysky2/profile-cleaner, but there are simple bash scripts and the like around the web to do the same thing. In almost all Linux distros, you actually have a shared SQLite installation, so the tools to do the work are typically already there and in your path.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

There a problem with your computer.

Firefox works fine here.


What version and addons are you running?

21

 

[lxskllr]

Well, lets list the facts as they pertain to you...

Firefox gets slow over time
RAM use is reasonable
Restarting the browser doesn't work
Restarting the computer does work

That would indicate to me something in your system is interacting poorly with Firefox, and it gets reset when the computer is restarted.

Could the cache be slowing it down in some way? Try purging the cache when the browser gets slow. (in Firefox)Edit-Preferences-Advanced click both [Clear now] buttons.

Otherwise, I don't know. Open a task manager, show all processes, and see if anything looks relevant to Firefox.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

Well, lets list the facts as they pertain to you...

Firefox gets slow over time
RAM use is reasonable
Restarting the browser doesn't work
Restarting the computer does work

That would indicate to me something in your system is interacting poorly with Firefox, and it gets reset when the computer is restarted.

Could the cache be slowing it down in some way? Try purging the cache when the browser gets slow. (in Firefox)Edit-Preferences-Advanced click both [Clear now] buttons.

Otherwise, I don't know. Open a task manager, show all processes, and see if anything looks relevant to Firefox.

i just did what you said and i think it helped, its not doing it at the moment. its had previously been caching 350 mb worth of crap. i have 4 gb on this machine but maybe freeing that up cleaned things up. i had previously tried shutting down firefox processes with the task manager and that hadnt helped, maybe because im wasnt recognizing all that needs to be shut down. thx for the help