Re: [gentoo-user] Memory/CPU usage in recent versions of Firefox

2017-06-14 Thread james
On 06/14/17 14:42, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 14 Jun 2017 13:10:16 Grant Edwards wrote: >> Starting a few months back, I've noticed that on some of my machines, >> Firefox has started to use rediculous amounts of CPU and memory. It >> will burn 100% of a CPU for minutes at a time while apparently d

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory/CPU usage in recent versions of Firefox

2017-06-14 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 14 Jun 2017 13:10:16 Grant Edwards wrote: > Starting a few months back, I've noticed that on some of my machines, > Firefox has started to use rediculous amounts of CPU and memory. It > will burn 100% of a CPU for minutes at a time while apparently doing > nothing. Opening 2-3 tabs wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory/CPU usage in recent versions of Firefox

2017-06-14 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > Starting a few months back, I've noticed that on some of my machines, > Firefox has started to use rediculous amounts of CPU and memory. It > will burn 100% of a CPU for minutes at a time while apparently doing > nothing. Opening 2-3 tabs will use up 1-2 GB of RAM. Doing th

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory/CPU usage in recent versions of Firefox

2017-06-14 Thread Radoje Stojisic
Which version of Firefox do you use? The latest version 54 has multi processor architecture included. Otherwise use about:performance the check what uses the most RAM. Am 14. Juni 2017 15:10:16 MESZ schrieb Grant Edwards : >Starting a few months back, I've noticed that on some of my machines

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory/CPU usage in recent versions of Firefox

2017-06-14 Thread R0b0t1
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Starting a few months back, I've noticed that on some of my machines, > Firefox has started to use rediculous amounts of CPU and memory. It > will burn 100% of a CPU for minutes at a time while apparently doing > nothing. Opening 2-3 tabs wi

[gentoo-user] Memory/CPU usage in recent versions of Firefox

2017-06-14 Thread Grant Edwards
Starting a few months back, I've noticed that on some of my machines, Firefox has started to use rediculous amounts of CPU and memory. It will burn 100% of a CPU for minutes at a time while apparently doing nothing. Opening 2-3 tabs will use up 1-2 GB of RAM. Doing the same thing thing in Chrome