Firefox perf is decreasing with every update

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There is something deeply wrong with Firefox at the moment.

As of Version 34, both my home PC ([email protected]) and my work PC (Q8200), after a period of time and with multiple tabs open, the browser will just freeze.

Could it be underpowered hardware? Surely you shouldn’t need a super powerful PC to make up for a poor performing program.

Not the screen goes white type and the message Firefox is not responding, no rather nothing. The browser is just a static picture, no buttons no nothing to move, just static.

I have a feeling it's related to my previous thread on Firefox where I was complaining about how Firefox is no good with flash heavy websites.

Anyone else seeing these issues?

Multiprocess support for Firefox as far as I can tell from Google searches has been pushed back to the end of 2015. :o
 
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Orcvader said:
Noticed it too, tried Waterfox to see if that helps but it seems to use a lot more RAM with hardly any performance increase.

Quite a shame electrolysis has been pushed back.
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This is the most important feature. Should be prioritised, but I can imagine it is a MASSIVE undertaking hence why it is taking so long.
 
Im a big Firefox fan by the way. But even I am getting tired of these performance issues.

It is only flash heavy websites really, the ones with multiple flash banners/video etc... if i have something like that inthe back ground and other tabs open sometimes it will just freeze. And i have to terminate the firefox process to get responsiveness back.

I'll have to try chrome again, but Firefox just feels like home.

Just as an example, if i have this site open in a tab for a while it tends to freeze the browser.
 
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mrk said:
^You can manually delete old FF profiles very quickly and easily without having to installed 3rd party apps :p

Installed on an SSD? Mine is on an old Samsung 830 series and runs just fine. Some websites with masses of youtube embedded videos such as forum threads will slow down initial load as it caches but after a few seconds it's back to normal.

I cannot use Chrome simply because most of the extensions I use are not available on Chrome and it's not as nice to use either.
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Yep mine is running on an SSD (Crucial M4)

Maybe i should just uninstall flash! :p
 
Elevon said:
I find FF performs better stability wise with hardware acceleration disabled so that is one of the first things I do,also probably worth using System Ninja to delete old FF profiles via its junk cleaner ,can get it here and it's free https://singularlabs.com/software/system-ninja/


FF35 has been stable for me with all my extensions.
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You disable hardware acceleration eh. But surely it's turned on for a reason? It's meant to help perf not hinder it?
 
I fear, with the cash vacuum that is going to slowly become more and more apparent from the partnership with Google having disappeared Mozilla and Firefox are in trouble.

Win 10's Project Spartan looks interesting and I can imagine quite a few people heading to that as they did with Chrome when it was the new kid on the block.

Mozilla and Firefox are not innovating fast enough. Firefox is still missing two massive features. 64bit version and multi threaded support. I think (although could be wrong) all the other major browsers have this already!
 
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