Firefox Quantum
Just yesterday, while I was writing an article listening to music on my discreet laptop, the music started to stutter. I looked at the activity monitor and saw that what was consuming a lot of resources was "web content". Thinking it was Twitter Lite that I launched in Chrome, I closed it. The problem was not solved and everything was very slow. Look Firefox, I realized that I had many windows open, I closed the ones that I did not need and the problem was solved. What happened? I don't know, but I was happy to read a new which seems to solve problems like the one I just mentioned.
From the looks of it, no less than 8 years ago was reported and suggested to Mozilla a solution to a bugs that was and still is in Firefox. The solution was to hibernate or suspend the tabs that have not been used for a while. Reading this we can think that this is the solution used by many mobile web browsers, although some of them "forget" these tabs so much that they can get refreshed when we try to access them again.
Firefox will hibernate the tabs that we do not use
It has been a long time, but everything seems to indicate that they will heed the suggestion. There is no official statement, but there is appears as "resolved" at their Reddit page. From what it seems, the solution will be present in Firefox 67, a version that is currently in the testing phase. Of course, at the moment only Windows users can test it.
To decide which windows to suspend, Mozilla will use its own algorithm: windows that are neither fixed nor playing audio will be suspended and this will be done when the system detects that it has little available RAM. Personally, it would not seem a bad idea for me to also suspend others if it detected that the general consumption of Firefox is high, but hey, we are talking about a trial version that can still receive changes.
The truth is that this news makes me happy. I can't wait to use Firefox 67. What about you?
I am also impatient.
I hope many things are corrected.
In an ordino of 4 Gigas (not now, that I have 16), it consumes all, but all the RAM memory according to what sites and pages you consume.
Regards…
I read not where it is not a bug, but a feature that could be implemented. Since it was proposed so far there have been many profound changes in Firefox, I guess that is the reason it was not implemented until now.
A greeting.
Popular problem, from what I see. I currently use Station to manage webapps, and it usually consumes 200mb of ram. But it happens that when I open Firefox the consumption shoots up, to the point that the pointer suffers excessive delay and I cannot minimize the windows. And when it goes down a bit and I can open the task manager, there is WebContents, which I actually think is replicated in 4 more processes.
Better I had to install Midori and Pale moon ... cool explorers ... xD
Rare the case of you when they say they have a very heavy Firefox. At this moment I have it open with 7 tabs and all the WebContent processes add 525 MB (3 blogs, 1 translator, 2 Youtube and 1 light web), clarifying that I have 8 GB of RAM on an Ubuntu Budgie that is lighter than Ubuntu with Gnome Shell for having Vala code mixed in.
To help Firefox I make some modifications and safe configurations that reduce its consumption (suppress unnecessary animations and increase the multiprocessing digit by one digit):
about: config> change to false: “toolkit.cosmeticAnimations.enabled”, “browser.download.animateNotifications”, “image.mem.animated.discardable”, “extensions.pocket.enabled”. >> Complements> Languages: just leave "Spanish (Spain) >> Preferences> General> check:" When you open a link in a new tab, switch immediately to it "> Default font: Size:" 14 "> uncheck:" Use recommended performance settings ”>“ Content processing limit ”: 5 >> Home> uncheck:“ Show search suggestions before browsing history in address bar results ”>> Privacy and security> check:“ Strict "> Uncheck:" Ask to save passwords and website logins "> check:" Prevent accessibility services from accessing your browser ".
If desired additionally you can install the much needed Auto Tab Discard extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/?src=search), which automatically hibernates the tabs in the background, significantly reducing RAM consumption, and is also highly configurable.
I forgot to mention that the Auto Tab Discard extension is recommended by the Mozilla team.