Firefox becomes slow after a couple of weeks open (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 week ago by TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Does anyone have this issue were firefox becomes slow if left open for a long time. In my case after a couple of weeks rendering becomes slow and when I use youtube for example if is laggy, just trying to change volume taka few second to show the volume bar. It also happens to my laptop at work. I have around 30 tabs open.

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[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Maybe because the software is designed to make that very practical and smooth. You also might point to hardware limitations, should you have a machine that doesn't have a lot of RAM, or perhaps you might point to simplicity, and that you don't want to have a cluttered taskbar.

But it's kind of ironic that you would ask why not leave software open on a post where the problem was specifically mentioned as one that is solved by closing the software.

[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

So perhaps another anecdote is in order. I currently running three instances of Firefox (different profiles) on a low-end Celeron laptop. I don't usually shut them except sometimes by mistake. What I do do is close tabs, if only for simplicity's sake (because idle tabs are unloaded from memory anyway). I'm experiencing no sluggishness issues.

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