Why is Firefox so busy?

[Ed]

Maybe you can begin a shard & swap strategy like Hans....

turn off javascript - sites are loading more JS libraries that haven't
been optimized (see AMD) even if they only use one function. Also,
remove flash and java - there is a rash of server hacks (Apache etc)
that use those as a vector into your world. Do any of your sites use
HTML5 effects - those typically pre-load a large amount of data to
your browser - no real way to escape, just an observation.

Non static web pages will have us all running virtual machines just to
avoid being abused. Remember, you are not a client, you are the
product.  :(

give netsurf a try  http://www.netsurf-browser.org/

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> The newer versions of Firefox in the guise of "efficiency" don't refresh the
> content (or maybe even load it) until you click on that tab.
>
> As for killing Firefox and restoring what was lost, Just go to the general
> tab of preferences and change the "When Firefox starts" entry to be "... the
> Windows and tabs from last time".  Then don't kill Firefox, just close it
> and restart it.
>
> der Hans also showed us Thursday night how you can use different profiles to
> (among other things) keep different tab sets open for each.
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Jon Kettenhofen <subs at kexsof.com> wrote:
>>
>> One thing I have noticed is that when I restart, it seems that the sites
>> don't load until I click on the page or the tab.
>> Once viewed, some sites will get busy loading banners, flash, youtube
>> videos, etc. which will obviously slow things
>> down. See if that's that case.
>>
>> Since you killed FF, did not exit it cleanly, I would otherwise expect it
>> to revive in pretty much the same state but it
>> didn't.  Stuff that's real-time in memory won't be maintained unless
>> written to hard drive so that may be a factor -
>> you killed it when you rebooted.
>>
>> On the other hand!  I have had extreme issues with gnome-shell (yes the
>> "new" one) gobbling up 100% to 120% or
>> a bit more of my hyper-threaded old xeon even with 8GB of memory, so I
>> have reverted to the Classic Gnome
>> session which is far kinder, peaking at 50% but usually maxing out at 20
>> percent and under 10 in normal use.
>>
>> Like you, I am wondering where all the processor bloat comes from. I have
>> removed most of my add-ons and
>> plug-ins to FF but with little or no effect.
>>
>> I'm running Mint (14) Nadia, using the Classic Gnome session applied at
>> the login.  Doesn't make me immune from
>> the Nasty Social Apparatus, but it beats having to reload another version
>> of linux.  Cinnamon runs gnome shell.
>>
>> Jon Kettenhofen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 07/13/2013 08:43 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, I'll confess, I am a WEB site hoarder...
>>> I find sites, open DOZENS of them, leave them open to
>>> read-them-later/use-them-for-something/show-it-someone-else/forgot-to-close-
>>> it, you get the drift...
>>> At any point of time I always have dozens of open pages, just sitting
>>> there.
>>> This morning, they were eating 50% of the power of EACH of my 4 cores...
>>> Which bumped the processor temp to 53 degs C.
>>> Doing nothing...
>>> So I killed the flash plug-in (frequent culprit) to no avail...
>>> So I bit the bullet and 'kill $(FFOX_PID)'
>>> All cores happy...
>>> I restarted Firefox and 'restored it' (which opened up everything I had
>>> before) and the processor now barely feels the load.  And is at a comfy 37
>>> deg C.
>>> Which begs the question:
>>> What in the World was it doing before?
>>> ET
>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>>>
>>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>
>
>
>
> --
> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>
> Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to
> multiple recipients, use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy). Remove addresses from
> a forwarded message body before clicking Send.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss