How I got Firefox 29 to not be slow.

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 12:07 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: 
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 09:59:08 -0600
> linux guy wrote:
> 
> > I ran a "ps aux |
> > grep firefox" only to find a ghost firefox instance still running.  I
> > killed it.
> 
> This seems to be epidemic in browsers. If you use chrome for a while
> you'll see it there too.
> 

At least a little while ago, chrome was even worse when many tabs were
open, IIRC because it consumed a huge number of threads.  Not sure if
that issue has been fixed recently, though.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu