On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 10:06:07 -0600, jetjock <jetjock@unkown.com>
wrote:

>On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 12:52:39 -0500, "Newyana2"
><Newyana2@invalid.nospam> wrote:
>
>>"jetjock" <jetjock@unkown.com> wrote
>>
>>| I am running Win 7 64 bit and FF 108.0.1 64 bit. See my reply to Ant
>>| for what extensions I still have running. I already have a max cache
>>| of 10 MB and I disabled prefetch when I installed Win 7 years ago.
>>
>>So far, so good.
>>
>>| I have been leery of using Noscript because I don't understand scripting
>>| well enough to know what to disable and what to use.
>>
>> It's a bit of work, but you don't really need to know much.
>>If you go to a website and it works, you leave the script
>>disabled. At Netflix I enable 2 or 3 Netflix domains but not
>>googletagmanager. Usually a site that needs script will work
>>with just script from that domain. The problem sites are things
>>like retail stores where NoScript shows script from 6 sources,
>>you enable 4, then it shows 8 more... and it never ends.
>>The spying and shopping functionality involved is nuts.
>>But you don't need expertise. The worst that might happen is
>>that a site doesn't work, so you have to enable most or all
>>script.
>
>Will hold off for a while. See below.
>>
>>| If what I have
>>| done with extensions doesn't solve the problem, I will have to do some
>>| studying I guess!
>>|
>> Another option is to run process explorer from sysinternals
>>and see what's tying in. Though I'm looking at it now and it
>>doesn't show much that's suspicious. I have some extensions
>>but they all show onlu a few KB of RAM used. The only notable
>>load is 35+ MB used by xul.dll, which I think is their GUI library.
>>
>> I'm assuming that FF takes the liberty of using extra if you have
>>free RAM, but I don't know what it would need it for on the scale
>>that you're seeing.
>
>After I disabled extensions Empty Cache Button, Start Page, Tab
>Mix-Links and The Camelizer, my memory use dropped down to between 4-5
>GB and has stayed there. Decided to add them back one at a time to see
>if I could identify the culprit. Well, surprise, surprise...they are
>all back and memory use is still between 4-5 GB!! Go figure. Will keep
>my eyes open and watch memory use for a while. If I get any more low
>memory warnings, will try them one at a time to see if I can isolate
>problem.
>
>Thanks for the help!
>>

After doing some further testing I have determined that the problem is
definitely with FF. I watched the memory usage as I read several
articles from my "My Yahoo" page. The longer I was reading the higher
the memory usage climbed until it hit almost 9GB, at which point FF
became almost totally unresponsive. I shut done the "My Yahoo" page
and memory usage slowly dropped back to 4-5 GB.

To confirm that it was FF and not "My Yahoo", I repeated the trial
with Chrome and memory usage never climbed above 5GB

Since I detest Chrome, do you have any suggestions to stop FF from
hogging the memory? Would NoScript work for this problem? If so, what
should I disable/enable to allow me to still read stories and view
video clips in the stories (only when desired)?

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