THIS may be of interest and a reason why you are having some issues:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/chrome-starts-pushing-java-off-the-web-by-disabling-plugins/



On 05/23/2015 06:44 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
> I don't notice firefox any slower than chromium, at least not until 
> using chromes at the same time cause it and my system itself to come 
> to a halt or implodes.
>
> I've simply had to start using firefox, chrome/chromium literally 
> destroy my system now using it to the point it'll about destabilize my 
> system within a day.  Plus, I'm finding more and more sites simply 
> (again) don't work with chrome that forces me to use firefox that 
> does.  It's like some resurgence of asp.net sites, or otherwise shitty 
> web code chrome simply doesn't tolerate.
>
> Sadly use of chrome is beginning to make ubuntu almost unusable for 
> me, for no lack of trying, I cannot figure out why.  Chrome and 
> chromium continue to chew up some apparently indescribable limit I'm 
> hitting that nothing logs or errors to the point I can't even wake it 
> up after dpms shuts off my display, without them I'm fine, hard 
> killing all chrome pids helps, but eventually once launching it, it's 
> a countdown to destruction.  I'm about rebooting my system every few 
> days, starting to feel like windows 98 again.
>
> I really start to wonder what I'm doing wrong that no one else is 
> doing, aside from apparently actually using linux to it's capabilities 
> as a desktop, and well beyond.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 05/23/2015 04:43 PM, joe@actionline.com wrote:
>> Is it just me or is Firefox slowing down worse all the time?
>>
>> Is there anything (new) that can be done to speed it up?
>>
>> I've made all the changes in about:config that I know to make.
>>
>> Or ... is the problem (also) my computer?
>>
>> Is there some way to clear memory other than to have to reboot?
>>
>> Day by day, everything just seems to get slower and slower
>> until I finally give up and reboot and then things work
>> a lot better (just for a while).
>>
>> I'm using Linux Mint.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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