Slow Firefox? Mozilla Says Add-Ons Are to Blame

[Unheard]

Possibly, but if it's a difference of .5s and 2s that's not anything to worry about IMO. And I rarely shut either of them down so I only see the startup time of either once a month or so.

Don't even talk about not shutting down FF. Memory leak city. I've seen it eating up 120mb of ram just sitting there.

Give Chrome a try for a week, trust me, you'll never go back people.

 

[Nothinman]

Don't even talk about not shutting down FF. Memory leak city. I've seen it eating up 120mb of ram just sitting there.

Give Chrome a try for a week, trust me, you'll never go back people.

I do primarily use Chrome, but I have FF installed as well and leave it running for weeks without issues as well. And if ~120M of memory is a concern for you, you need more memory.

 

[lowrider69]

Don't even talk about not shutting down FF. Memory leak city. I've seen it eating up 120mb of ram just sitting there.

Give Chrome a try for a week, trust me, you'll never go back people.

We got it, you love Chrome. Go do a Chrome commercial elsewhere.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/04/mozilla-publishes-list-of-the-50-slowest-firefox-add-ons/


p.s. i have tried chrome and i just like firefox better overall.

 

[pyonir]

Don't even talk about not shutting down FF. Memory leak city. I've seen it eating up 120mb of ram just sitting there.

Give Chrome a try for a week, trust me, you'll never go back people.

I tried Chrome, went back to FF. It's personal preference, and we get it, yours is Chrome.

 

[zCypher]

Tried Chrome a few times, the last time I liked it quite a lot but still ended up going back to Firefox. Performance in FF is really a non issue. You can't beat the functionality with all the addons.

I have 13 addons including Adblock Plus, IETab2, FasterFox Lite, Ghostery, Noscript, Grab and Drag, Omnibar, DownloadHelper, Tab Mix Plus, MinimizeToTray revived

It's great! All of my plugins worked in Minefield (FF nightly build) until it was updated again recently which broke all the plugins.

 

[imagoon]

Don't even talk about not shutting down FF. Memory leak city. I've seen it eating up 120mb of ram just sitting there.

Give Chrome a try for a week, trust me, you'll never go back people.

Hrm.

Windows 7 uptime is 371:xx hours of which Firefox has been open 370 of it. Total CPU time is 1:40 and memory usage is 239meg of 6gig of RAM. The plugin container is at 38 seconds of cpu time and 20 meg of RAM. I would think a memory leak would have manifested itself in 15 days.

 

[Tom]

I must be doing something wrong, FF4 starts in about 1.5 seconds for me.

Have 8 plug-ins, are those considered add-ons ?

 

[dguy6789]

I open Firefox about once a week when I reboot my machine, whereas I make use of extensions several hours per day so I can live with the slower-than-chrome-but still-not-too-slow startup time

But how do you guys live with having one really slow tab slow the browser to a crawl?(Loading an extremely huge web page in a tab for example) In Chrome each tab is completely independent of one another in terms of performance. That's probably the single biggest reason I use Chrome.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

This almost never happens to me so it's pretty much a non-issue in my usage.

But how do you guys live with having one really slow tab slow the browser to a crawl?(Loading an extremely huge web page in a tab for example) In Chrome each tab is completely independent of one another in terms of performance. That's probably the single biggest reason I use Chrome.

 

[imagoon]

But how do you guys live with having one really slow tab slow the browser to a crawl?(Loading an extremely huge web page in a tab for example) In Chrome each tab is completely independent of one another in terms of performance. That's probably the single biggest reason I use Chrome.

Issue happens so rarely that it doesn't bother me.

 

[Nothinman]

But how do you guys live with having one really slow tab slow the browser to a crawl?(Loading an extremely huge web page in a tab for example) In Chrome each tab is completely independent of one another in terms of performance. That's probably the single biggest reason I use Chrome.

I almost never see that either and previous versions of Chrome had similar issues, there seemed to be a lock on some core component like networking that would cause tabs to seem to load synchronously. Although that may have been fixed by now too, I haven't been paying close enough attention after each Chrome update.

 

[lxskllr]

But how do you guys live with having one really slow tab slow the browser to a crawl?(Loading an extremely huge web page in a tab for example) In Chrome each tab is completely independent of one another in terms of performance. That's probably the single biggest reason I use Chrome.

I've had Chrome lockup tight due to a bad tab. In fact, I've had more crash issues with Chrome than Firefox or Opera. That's why I'm not sold on tab isolation. In my experience, all it does clutter up task manager, with no benefit. Maybe Chrome's a bit better now. I still have it installed, but don't use it much. I don't have any issues with Firefox, and it provides features no other browser has. It may not be the fastest,, but it's fast enough, and best for my purposes.

 

[a123456]

Hrm.

Windows 7 uptime is 371:xx hours of which Firefox has been open 370 of it. Total CPU time is 1:40 and memory usage is 239meg of 6gig of RAM. The plugin container is at 38 seconds of cpu time and 20 meg of RAM. I would think a memory leak would have manifested itself in 15 days.

It seems to leak more for me when I have a lot of tabs open. I typically load and keep about 20 or so tabs open at a time.

If I reboot and look at the mem usage, it's about 300M, which is fine. Usually, after a day or two, it has ballooned up to 800M or 1G or so. I don't mind the memory usage in and of itself but when it grows that large, it gets sluggish. Clicks aren't instantaneous anymore but have a sticky 1-2 second pause before registering.

If I restart FF, it goes back to the base 300M again and it's snappy again. I can live with the restarting but it's just another quirk that I figure isn't going to be solved.

 

[imagoon]

It seems to leak more for me when I have a lot of tabs open. I typically load and keep about 20 or so tabs open at a time.

If I reboot and look at the mem usage, it's about 300M, which is fine. Usually, after a day or two, it has ballooned up to 800M or 1G or so. I don't mind the memory usage in and of itself but when it grows that large, it gets sluggish. Clicks aren't instantaneous anymore but have a sticky 1-2 second pause before registering.

If I restart FF, it goes back to the base 300M again and it's snappy again. I can live with the restarting but it's just another quirk that I figure isn't going to be solved.

Well 371 hours = 15 days. And I have 26 tabs open and they are set to reload when I restart firefox.

 

[a123456]

Well 371 hours = 15 days. And I have 26 tabs open and they are set to reload when I restart firefox.

No idea. I wish I could leave it open for 15 days but it'd get too sluggish. I have the similar thing with all tabs to reload on restart so it isn't that big a deal. Just a 5 second thing every couple of days but it does leak for me pretty badly.

 

[imagoon]

No idea. I wish I could leave it open for 15 days but it'd get too sluggish. I have the similar thing with all tabs to reload on restart so it isn't that big a deal. Just a 5 second thing every couple of days but it does leak for me pretty badly.

I had noticed that issue on my Mac but not on my work PC, home pc and home laptop. I do run with things like adblock plus and no script.