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Re: "I don't know why, but ever since switching to Firefox a few..."
I'm using LibreWolf for the past couple weeks as I have to access some sites behind CF, and qutebrowser isn't able to pass the CF captcha, and I've noticed that sometimes, it lags my system and I have to kill(1) it for it to start working again, but I'm using a lot of extensions too, so it might be those.
I have 32G of ram, and IIRC it was CPU use not ram, (when I opened htop)
Dec 04 · 3 weeks ago
🚀 Minko_Ikana · Dec 04 at 22:14:
Thank you for sharing that! I guess I have been lucky with my combination I guess. The only extensions I use are NoScript and Ghostery.
I use librewolf, bug all firefox derivatives use a huge amount of memory, start a lot of processes, and generally pollute the system. I am at a loss as to what to do about browsing, especially for high-consequence browsing for banking, medical, investment, etc. I have to keep a vulnerable browser with no security for banking, since banks reject more secure browsers and don't work when when I filter dozens of tracking bugs that infest their pages...
🚀 Minko_Ikana · Dec 05 at 00:46:
"I have to keep a vulnerable browser with no security for banking, since banks reject more secure browsers and don't work when when I filter dozens of tracking bugs that infest their pages..."
Yes I hate that. They make me go change all my settings, and then go set them all back after I am done playing with their system. It defeats the purpose, I don't want my data in their database either in case they themselves get hacked. They make us more vulnerable by making us drop security. What about leaks between them and us?
Thank you for sharing... :)
I don't know why, but ever since switching to Firefox a few months ago, it has been using significantly more ram than Chrome/Edge and so over time it ends up lagging out my whole system. I've switched back to Edge because of this. Something weird is going on with Firefox recently, almost like there's a memory leak or something. Does anyone know anything about this?