OT: Is it just me or is Firefox slowing worse?

[Michael Butash]

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 at 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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