Re: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2

2023-08-15 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 11:12:08PM +0200, Robin Candau wrote: > Let's either drop it or focus on the potential Firefox issue initially > stated please. Agreed. I had no idea that this was something 'controversial', hence my question. Ciao, -- FA

Re: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2

2023-08-15 Thread Robin Candau
Le 15/08/2023 à 22:49, Fons Adriaensen a écrit : On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 05:08:46PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: A pro for Firefox: Brendan Eich left Mozilla A con for Brave: Brendan Eich owns Brave I wouldn't use Brave, even if it would be the best browser available, I even wouldn't use it,

Re: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2

2023-08-15 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 05:08:46PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > A pro for Firefox: Brendan Eich left Mozilla > A con for Brave: Brendan Eich owns Brave > I wouldn't use Brave, even if it would be the best browser available, I > even wouldn't use it, if it would be the only browser available.

Fwd: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2

2023-08-15 Thread Andy Pieters
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 at 13:22, pete wrote: > Makes me wonder what desktops asre being used KDE /Plasma here KDE for > years > from the early days mian problems i had were when i had a look at Gnome > the FF > started being unruley runnin 116.0.2 on Arch here fully updated no > issues > > try

Re: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2

2023-08-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, IMO the output of htop is confusing, not only because it does use a different colour theme on my machine. I'm also confused by the output of about:memory. I don't know if the output of about:processes is correct or complete, but this output does look human readable to me. FWIW I'm neither

Re: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2

2023-08-14 Thread mpan
I forgot to add: Firefox has a built-in memory profiler. Just go to “about:memory” in the address bar and press “Measure”. This is separate from the measurement outlined in the other email.

Re: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2

2023-08-14 Thread mpan
Although it's impossible, I can't catch the problem again now  But that problem hasn't only appeared for twice but many times. I'm now trying to make it reappear. Hello, While reporting, please make sure you’re reporting the right value. “Memory usage” is pretty vague and it becomes even

Re: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2

2023-08-14 Thread Timoyoungster
What are browsers even using that much memory for these days? Are websites really half a gig or more now or what are the browsers loading to use up that much? On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 8:40 PM Emil Lundberg wrote: > On 8/14/23 17:01, Polarian wrote: > > Yes expect each tab to take anywhere

Re: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2

2023-08-14 Thread Emil Lundberg
On 8/14/23 17:01, Polarian wrote: Yes expect each tab to take anywhere between 500mb to 1gb of memory, this is not a bug this is literally how heavy (bloated, if you want to say it) firefox has become. That's not how memory works. I routinely have tens of tabs active (and literal hundreds

Re: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2

2023-08-14 Thread Ruiyang Peng
Although it's impossible, I can't catch the problem again now  But that problem hasn't only appeared for twice but many times. I'm now trying to make it reappear. On 8/14/23 22:15, Zerro wrote: > FWIW I don't see that happening using Firefox 116.0.2 with Arch Linux 6.4.10 also on a x86-64

Re: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2

2023-08-14 Thread Zerro
On 8/14/23 15:50, Ruiyang Peng wrote: I was using Firefox and suddenly there was something wrong with it: I can't switch the tabs. I found that Firefox has taken over 2GB of memory, while I've just opened three tabs (A circuit simulator, a local file, and a music website and none of it

Re: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2

2023-08-14 Thread Robin Candau
Le 14/08/2023 à 15:50, Ruiyang Peng a écrit : I was using Firefox and suddenly there was something wrong with it: I can't switch the tabs. I found that Firefox has taken over 2GB of memory, while I've just opened three tabs (A circuit simulator, a local file, and a music website and none of

Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2

2023-08-14 Thread Ruiyang Peng
I was using Firefox and suddenly there was something wrong with it: I can't switch the tabs. I found that Firefox has taken over 2GB of memory, while I've just opened three tabs (A circuit simulator, a local file, and a music website and none of it could take such memory)! I rebooted, but