How I got Firefox 29 to not be slow.

[David Beveridge]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Marcel J.E. Mol <marcel at mesa.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 12:07:54PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>
>> This seems to be epidemic in browsers. If you use chrome for a while
>> you'll see it there too.
>
> I've had similar experiences. Having 50 or more open tabs in several tab groups.
> When you look at the ps output next time notices FFs memory usage. I noticed
> it tends to use more and more memory over time and a a certain point it just
> becomes slow. Therefor I just quit FF overy couple of days and restart it.
>

I suspect this is due to badly written javascript on pages that just gobbles up
resources.  In chrome I press SHIFT-ESC to get the task manager open.
Sometimes I find a tab that is using way too much CPU and or memory and
I can kill it.