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[-] roux@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Firefox is best unless you have 224,538 tabs open. Or so I've heard.

I checked yesterday and my extensions were also taking up 1.3 GB of ram. I think one has a memory leak or some shit but idk which. Firefox just takes forever to launch for me and after a couple days of running it goes to a crawl.

E: thanks everyone for trying to help me btw E2: I might be an idiot. I think it might have been the amazing 2 GB of cached data I just deleted.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

I don't know what you mean, I have more tabs than that open and they unload if I haven't opened them in awhile. memory usage doesn't scale with number of tabs. I think your extensions are bugged.

[-] roux@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I wish I could see what extension is taking up what ram allocation but FF's task manager just have a listing for "extensions" and that was when I found out that after a long time it goes up to 1.3 GB from like a normal 300 MB. I think at the end of the day I'm gonna just need to play extension roulette and see if I can find which one it might be. But it literally takes 10 minutes to load FF on startup.

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

extensions can each have a performance impact that adds up, so it can be good to turn off any uncommonly used or redundant ones. like having multiple ad blockers installed doesn't block the ads twice as hard, it just means they each have to run on every page

[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

When I transitioned to Firefox from Chrome, I did so in large part because it at least was better at managing 224,538 open tabs. At the very least at the time, it seems that Chrome held all of the information about the tabs in RAM.

[-] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Firefox is the best, but I noticed Edge is more snappy at loading pages. Especially if its a page with a lot of images. But Edge is for libs, so I don't use it.

The conspiratorial side of me wants to believe that websites are coded to perform poorly when a non-Chrome browser is using them, in order to get people to switch to Chrome or Edge or whatever. Like the site detects the User Agent as "Firefox" and lowers its download speed.

[-] lapis@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

websites are coded to perform poorly when a non-Chrome browser is using them

many of them basically are, but not intentionally. a lot of web developers only test in Chrome, and Chrome does some really weird shit (especially with JS and CSS) that means if you target Chrome you’re passively degrading the experience for not-Chrome.

I personally develop my code targeting Firefox or Safari most of the time, since both work a lot closer to spec with JS and CSS than Chrome does.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

There's circumstantial evidence that most of google's sites degrade performance intentionally.

And plenty of sites try to stop you with a "only works on chrome" message, but work perfectly fine if you just spoof your browser string to look like you're using chrome.

[-] roux@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

For me, when I use FF in private mode or troubleshooting mode, it's snappy as fuck so it's all on me lol. I'm running a dark mode extension that does client side rerenderimg on page load which is pretty heavy but like I also have 32GB of ram to use.

After a ton of testing I can't really tell if it's too many tabs or too many extensions. I have a leaky habit of leaving tabs open because what if I need it later? And like right now I'm building a theme for AstroJS so I have like 12 tabs open just for that. I also have like 8 pinned tabs for my most used sites like proton, Gmail, reddit, Hexbear, SoundCloud, etc. I think it's mostly just my bad browsing habits.

I like to be as FOSS as possible so FF isn't going away for me any time soon.

[-] neo@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

You can go to about:profiles and then relaunch the web browser with all add ons disabled to see if that changes things up for you. Though I imagine browsing the web without uBlock Origin on is its own special hell.

[-] roux@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I just ran it without extensions and it's the same. Only thing I can really think is the amount of tabs. I can go to a private tab, and basically any sites loads instantly.

[-] roux@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I have wondered if it is my uBO that is making things load so slow. But don't Donna get rid of it because special hell like you said. I use the most popular dark mode extension. And people have reported that that one can slow down but I cant imagine it would slow down this bad.

[-] zkrzsz@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

You may not need all those tabs. Create a new profile and roll with it, you can always launch the old profile if you need something from the old tabs.

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