Firefox too heavy?
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Soldato
Hmm I have had slowdown and too using ghostery. Will check this out.
When you start Firefox, is there a small delay before it shows your homepage? My homepage is set to Google and I get this delay.
Don't uninstall Ghostery if you just want to test, but disable it in your add-ons and restart Firefox. That gave me an almost instant speed boost.
Have to say with 55.x and making sure its using 4 additional processes so far its a much improved experience - though if anything I'm seeing quite a bit more RAM usage (even taking into account the overhead of extra processes) but no more slowdowns with content heavy pages, much reduced instances of other slowdowns and much better performance and responsiveness on my portable devices.
heresy - but is ff the best browser for lighter H.P. tablets, I use a atom(4 core z150)/1GB/touch for some light browsing and here edge works fine,
i think it naturally parks non-selected tabs too.
If using ff I would probably review the memory/java resources that my typical sites use and apply noscript more aggresively,
plus FF options to limit java & image(jpg) resources tabs/sites can take;
for web pages that autoload as you scroll down, I think these may just eat resources/pre-load up to the limits the browser imposes.
i think it naturally parks non-selected tabs too.
If using ff I would probably review the memory/java resources that my typical sites use and apply noscript more aggresively,
plus FF options to limit java & image(jpg) resources tabs/sites can take;
for web pages that autoload as you scroll down, I think these may just eat resources/pre-load up to the limits the browser imposes.
Probably pushing it a bit on a 1GB tablet unless you browse like 1-2 sites at a time - on my 2GB quad core Atom tablets since 55 update and configuring it to use 4 processes properly its running great on them with multiple sites loaded but does take a fair whack of RAM.
I'd imagine the profile has been through a lot with all the years of revisions.
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Yup looks like Ghostery fixed it:
Also, uBlock Origin is now fully web extension, so is FF57 ready. That's another legacy addon off of my list
. Still have a few more crucial addons that needs to be updated. I have yet to find one that can rehost images to Imgur...
Also, uBlock Origin is now fully web extension, so is FF57 ready. That's another legacy addon off of my list
. Still have a few more crucial addons that needs to be updated. I have yet to find one that can rehost images to Imgur...
Soldato
The loss of Classic Theme Restorer will be devastating to me. The main thing is the tabs on top which I hate - I need them on bottom!
Someone managed to get tabs on the bottom with the userChrome.css file: https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/6xk11r/bottom_tabs_container_tweaks_breezedark_theme/
Could try that and unless Mozilla breaks something, it should work with FF57.
I thought this was an impressive piece of chrome functionality - with F12 you can access 'advanced' options and throttle the maximum download/upload rate for a tab
and see what it is up to
- If you use talktalk adsl and try and upload too fast they will throttle your download, so it is useful - no solution in firefox ?
and see what it is up to
- If you use talktalk adsl and try and upload too fast they will throttle your download, so it is useful - no solution in firefox ?
Are you sure its talktalk throttling? if you are uploading to saturation you risk flooding out acks of downstream data which reduces your down speeds especially with poor configuration. Not really had a need for that so not looked into it - I'm using the original BT modem which has built in upstream QoS which prevents any one application/connection using more than 90% upstream which mostly mitigates the behaviour.
As you say, it somewhat relates to leaving bandwidth for returning ack's eg.
https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5...mpletely-stops-download-on-HG633/td-p/1996274
there are mutliple talktalk threads, and I found the solution here
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/499k39/is_there_a_way_to_limit_youtube_upload_bandwidth/
you seem to have to leave a lot more bandwidth than you might expect, but, after playing, for utube/flickr/one-drive, above config worked for me.
https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5...mpletely-stops-download-on-HG633/td-p/1996274
there are mutliple talktalk threads, and I found the solution here
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/499k39/is_there_a_way_to_limit_youtube_upload_bandwidth/
you seem to have to leave a lot more bandwidth than you might expect, but, after playing, for utube/flickr/one-drive, above config worked for me.
Soldato
Have not had the slowdown after disabling.
several comments above that ghostery now fixed ?