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Alereon posted:You should have noticed REDUCTIONS in the amount of memory used. You may have a lovely plug-in or extension installed, or may need to make a new profile. Please see the instructions in the OP. In addition to this, exactly how much memory is "so much memory"?
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Does anyone have suggestions for a basic vertical tabs extension? I loved how Chrome handles this, and the few I've tried on Firefox aren't quite what I'm looking for. I do not want tab trees or groups.
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Jan 16, 2013 07:05
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It uses up more than 150% (almost 2 mil) of memory usage when I open my daily tabs, compared to the last build. I also need to restart the browser to stop the stuttering. I did get rid of several add-ons. Starting a new profile is such a bitch. Might need an add-on to help.
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Jan 16, 2013 07:12
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Keyboard Kid posted:Does anyone have suggestions for a basic vertical tabs extension? I loved how Chrome handles this, and the few I've tried on Firefox aren't quite what I'm looking for. I do not want tab trees or groups. I'm pretty sure either Vertical Tabs or Side Tabs will do what you're looking for. But man, the trees are the best part.
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Scalding Coffee posted:It uses up more than 150% (almost 2 mil) of memory usage when I open my daily tabs, compared to the last build. I also need to restart the browser to stop the stuttering. I did get rid of several add-ons. If you use the built-in method, it's not that bad anymore.
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Jan 16, 2013 07:26
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YggiDee posted:I'm pretty sure either Vertical Tabs or Side Tabs will do what you're looking for. But man, the trees are the best part. Both have been broken for around a month--you can't move tabs.
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Jan 16, 2013 07:31
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Sorry. I fired them up long enough to make sure they ran, but didn't check past that.
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Jan 16, 2013 07:40
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Keyboard Kid posted:Does anyone have suggestions for a basic vertical tabs extension? I loved how Chrome handles this, and the few I've tried on Firefox aren't quite what I'm looking for. I do not want tab trees or groups.
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Jan 16, 2013 08:32
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Scalding Coffee posted:It uses up more than 150% (almost 2 mil) of memory usage when I open my daily tabs, compared to the last build. I also need to restart the browser to stop the stuttering. I did get rid of several add-ons. Unload tab was mentioned a few posts back. I currently have five windows open with around 26 tabs and Aurora is using 476mb. Yeah the tab refreshes if you haven't accessed it in a while but if you have a plugin that you can't do without but leaks memory (Like Flash) it's a good alternative. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unloadtab/?src=api
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Jan 16, 2013 15:46
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I'm having a new font rendering problem. I think it cropped up when I upgraded to 18.0, but I haven't used this computer much for a few weeks so it could have been around in some 17.x version. Gmail:  Twitter:  The comparison is to Chrome. Firefox is first in both images, and Chrome is second, and at 3x scale. The "Gmail" text and the "TWEETS/FOLLOWING/FOLLWERS" text are the biggest problems in these images. I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 on a Dell laptop with Intel graphics. This doesn't seem to be a problem with most sites, or even all text on a problem site. And I haven't noticed any problems in any application outside of Firefox. I at least skimmed the about :config for anything with "font" in it and nothing seemed to suggest hinting/smoothing/subpixel rendering adjustments, so I'm at a loss. It's kind of starting to drive me nuts, though. Is there any way to fine-tune font rendering, or am I going to have to bug report this? fourwood fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Jan 16, 2013 |
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Jan 16, 2013 23:35
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Man, hardware-acceleration is such poo poo for me on FF18. I've never had a problem with it on previous versions, but ever since updating to 18 I've been lagging like hell after 10 - 15 minutes of browsing, due to HWA. Luckily turning it off fixes it (so far at least) so it's not a huge deal, but stll annoying. Anyone know what they changed about it to cause this?
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Jan 17, 2013 14:59
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The only major changes I'm aware of are Azure Canvas and DPI-scaling, neither of which should actually come into play on a normal system. Do make sure you have the latest video drivers (if you have an AMD videocard you need to use the latest beta drivers). If that and using the Reset Firefox feature mentioned in the OP don't fix it, post a link to your about:support log.
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Jan 17, 2013 21:25
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Hmmm, Firefox is using my lovely integrated graphics, which I've not bothered updating since I bought my laptop, looks like that was the problem. Since I use my other card for gaming/watching videos and I've only owned this PC for 5 months I didn't think about that yet. I had tried resetting Firefox, and updated my main card drivers on Monday, so I was stumped, guess I'm still not used to multiple video cards. Thanks for the help!
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Jan 18, 2013 00:57
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Yeah that would do it, in general to save power only games and other apps that really need the performance of the videocard will use it, the rest of the time it stays powered off. This is probably something you can change if you care to or primarily use the laptop plugged in.
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Jan 18, 2013 01:00
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My desktop install of FF18 refuses to sync bookmarks with my Sync account. My laptop (Win7) and both android devices sync perfectly fine, but my desktop (Ubuntu 12.10) refuses to either sync bookmarks, or even load them from a backup file from my laptop. I can add bookmarks locally, but that's it. I have checked, and my sync settings are correct. EDIT: Noting this for posterity. Make sure all your devices are running the same version! Laptop was still on 17.x, since I don't use it that often. Updated, forced Sync, and everything is peachy. PitViper fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Jan 18, 2013 |
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Jan 18, 2013 01:11
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My laptop install of Firefox 18 appears to be on its last legs. No longer does it only require a please-release-all-your-memory-leaks-restart after a fierce bout of opening 300 Wikipedia articles and several hundred more on saved tab groups. Now even running a cozy, 8-9 tabs causes it to become death, the shatterer of swapfile. Could be some idiot extension, most likely Tab Mix Plus because god knows that's black magic, or maybe it's just finally getting to the point where my going on six-year-old bargain bin even then laptop is finally reaching the end of its useful life. Or, I could just raise the angry MOZILLA DOESNT CARE ABOUT LINUX PEOPLE banner. Every other broken Linux afterthought app does just fine on it. Never thought I'd see the day when Spotify Linux was causing fewer problems than Firefox Linux.
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Jan 18, 2013 08:22
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fivre posted:My laptop install of Firefox 18 appears to be on its last legs. No longer does it only require a please-release-all-your-memory-leaks-restart after a fierce bout of opening 300 Wikipedia articles and several hundred more on saved tab groups. Now even running a cozy, 8-9 tabs causes it to become death, the shatterer of swapfile. Could be some idiot extension, most likely Tab Mix Plus because god knows that's black magic, or maybe it's just finally getting to the point where my going on six-year-old bargain bin even then laptop is finally reaching the end of its useful life. Try Tab Utilities instead of Tab Mix Plus?
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Jan 18, 2013 08:42
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fivre posted:Or, I could just raise the angry MOZILLA DOESNT CARE ABOUT LINUX PEOPLE banner. Every other broken Linux afterthought app does just fine on it. You could, but you'd be completely wrong. The vast majority of Firefox devs run Linux. Windows ends up being closer to an afterthought than Linux does.
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edit - never mind I've fixed it
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Jan 20, 2013 15:02
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I'm currently testing out Aurora 20.0a2 (2013-01-19) and for some reason I can no longer stop GIF animations by hitting ESC. Is there a way to enable that?
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Jan 20, 2013 17:11
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fourwood posted:I'm having a new font rendering problem. I think it cropped up when I upgraded to 18.0, but I haven't used this computer much for a few weeks so it could have been around in some 17.x version. Exact same issue here. Was sick of Chrome so switched to firefox today. Complete fresh install of Firefox 18.01 and fonts look hosed up. I've turned off hw acceleration too. No effect.
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Jan 23, 2013 01:21
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If anyone cares, Waterfox finally updated to V18 today. Apparently there were some critical bugs in the Intel C compiler he uses, which he's finally gotten Intel to fix.
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fivre posted:My laptop install of Firefox 18 appears to be on its last legs. No longer does it only require a please-release-all-your-memory-leaks-restart after a fierce bout of opening 300 Wikipedia articles and several hundred more on saved tab groups. Now even running a cozy, 8-9 tabs causes it to become death, the shatterer of swapfile. Could be some idiot extension, most likely Tab Mix Plus because god knows that's black magic, or maybe it's just finally getting to the point where my going on six-year-old bargain bin even then laptop is finally reaching the end of its useful life. Nah longtime Firefox fan here and I am experiencing the same issues as you; and I am on an i7 with 16 GB of RAM. Looks like I am going to have to use Chrome full time as much as I don't want to (so many awesome Firefox plugins I will miss).
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Jan 23, 2013 01:46
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A long time ago someone posted a setting in this thread that you could change to zero and it stopped it from doing any processing of tabs at startup. I've just had to do a long overdue profile reset and can't remember what this setting was. It's not the same as the "do not load tabs at startup" tickbox in options. Can anyone remember what it was?
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Jan 23, 2013 15:03
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WastedJoker posted:Exact same issue here. Yeah, I unticked the HW acceleration box, no effect. This is like Chinese water torture. It's such a small effect but after staring at it for so long... 
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Jan 23, 2013 15:16
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I thought I had figured this out but obviously not. Can some one please explain how I can block the "who to follow" section on twitter using adblock please? I have tried a few different ways, but none of them work. Like this http://howdoitknow.net/tutorials/how-to-hide-who-to-follow-section-on-twitter/ It's possible it's out of date?
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:Nah longtime Firefox fan here and I am experiencing the same issues as you; and I am on an i7 with 16 GB of RAM. Looks like I am going to have to use Chrome full time as much as I don't want to (so many awesome Firefox plugins I will miss). Having the same slowdown/memory hog problem as you guys. Some dude on the official support forum says it's due to poor handling of flash, but I dunno. I've switched to Chrome temporarily until this is resolved.
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Jan 23, 2013 17:36
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Jippa posted:I thought I had figured this out but obviously not. Can some one please explain how I can block the "who to follow" section on twitter using adblock please?
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Yeah I've tried using that. I select the box just around "who to follow" and it says it's called "div,class:flex-module". I add this but it hides the trending box below it as well which I'd like too keep. e- excellent I've done it. twitter.com##.module.wtf-module.js-wtf-module.has-content Jippa fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Jan 23, 2013 |
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Jan 23, 2013 18:00
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Has anyone else had any problems with the Firefox and the Windows 8 snap feature--where you can attach a metro app to the side. It regularly causes freezes and instability for me. Sometimes if you wait long enough it pops up with a 'stop script' button that works, other times I have to restart Firefox.
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Jan 23, 2013 18:02
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Jippa posted:Yeah I've tried using that. I select the box just around "who to follow" and it says it's called "div,class:flex-module".
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Swilo posted:You have to use W and N on your keyboard to "zoom" in and out until you find the proper object (H will hide the legend if it's in the way). For that particular box it is twitter.com##.module.wtf-module.js-wtf-module.has-content which is one step higher in the page structure than what you were doing. Thanks mate, I just this minute found that and edited my previous post. Thanks for looking into it though.
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Seed posted:Having the same slowdown/memory hog problem as you guys. Some dude on the official support forum says it's due to poor handling of flash, but I dunno. I've switched to Chrome temporarily until this is resolved. You and Miyamotos RGB NES are both having totally different experiences to me - v18 has been the quickest and lightest Firefox I've used in the last 5+ years. Ram and CPU usage is down, there have been fewer freezes when switching tabs, and I've not had a crash. I'm also a long time user, and I have the habit of opening tons of tabs at once, so either the difference is an extension going haywire, or a problem with flash. I run a bunch of addons: Pentadactyl, Adblock Edge, Stylish, Lastpass etc, but I use the click to play option for all plugins, and have no plugins enabled at all other than Flash. Maybe try that? I have a fast home PC (latest gen i5, 16GB of ram, SSD, Ubuntu) & a slowish work PC (Core 2 Duo, 3GB, Win7). Firefox runs fine on both, whilst Chrome bogs down easily on the Win7 PC & runs great in Linux.
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Lum posted:A long time ago someone posted a setting in this thread that you could change to zero and it stopped it from doing any processing of tabs at startup. I've just had to do a long overdue profile reset and can't remember what this setting was. It's not the same as the "do not load tabs at startup" tickbox in options. browser.sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs = 0 per chance? If that's it, does it not just do the same as "Do not load tabs at startup"?
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WattsvilleBlues posted:browser.sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs = 0 per chance? If that's it, does it not just do the same as "Do not load tabs at startup"? That sounds familiar, but if that is the same as that setting, I guess my problem lies elsewhere The other thing that's bugging me, and it's a really stupid thing, on my old profile my tabs and toolbar picked up their colour from my Windows 8 theme, including changing colour when the window lost focus or if you changed the Windows colour setting. The new profile doesn't do this and I can't figure out which setting does that, googling just finds people telling me to install themes or fursonas which isn't the same thing, this was on the default theme.
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Jan 24, 2013 01:31
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Is there a way to disable Firefox from 'unloading' your inactive tabs?
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wooger posted:You and Miyamotos RGB NES are both having totally different experiences to me - v18 has been the quickest and lightest Firefox I've used in the last 5+ years. Ram and CPU usage is down, there have been fewer freezes when switching tabs, and I've not had a crash. I dunno, I can describe what happens though, and this has been going on for over a year or so. I'd open a ton of tabs (really bad habit), sort of a way to remind myself to read something later or whatever. Anyway, "back in the day" I could have ridiculous number of Firefox tabs open; no joke, like over 200 of them at once, and my computer would not bat an eye. Now, if I am approaching anything close to 15 of them, my computer is partying like it was built in 1999. I can force close Firefox (it gets so slow that just clicking a link on a page I am already on can take forever) and when it restarts again (after a good 3 minute wait) it will be fast as lightning. Even after having 30+ tabs open (forget about the old days of 200 of them though). However, after MAYBE one day of Firefox simply existing on my computer and it becomes a slow mess, even with only 1 tab open. Reboot the computer or force close Firefox and restart it, and it will be blazing fast again. A friend of mine with a similar PC reports almost the exact same thing as me. 
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:I dunno, I can describe what happens though, and this has been going on for over a year or so. I'd open a ton of tabs (really bad habit), sort of a way to remind myself to read something later or whatever. Anyway, "back in the day" I could have ridiculous number of Firefox tabs open; no joke, like over 200 of them at once, and my computer would not bat an eye. Now, if I am approaching anything close to 15 of them, my computer is partying like it was built in 1999. As always, temporarily disable all plugins and extensions & restart --> does it still happen? If it's flash this should stop it. I use click to play for plugins, and perhaps that mitigates the issue a bunch. What extensions are you running? There are some know offenders that leak memory.
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wooger posted:As always, temporarily disable all plugins and extensions & restart --> does it still happen? If it's flash this should stop it. I use click to play for plugins, and perhaps that mitigates the issue a bunch. I definitely thought extensions could be the culprit but my friend has 0 installed (wouldn't even know how to install one). All I have is TabMix Plus and SANZBDB. Could it really just be from one of the tabs having Youtube opened? Or even the ads on the top of these very forums is Flash. Could something that small be the culprit? Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Jan 24, 2013 |
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Keyboard Kid posted:Is there a way to disable Firefox from 'unloading' your inactive tabs?
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