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Re: "I don't know why, but ever since switching to Firefox a few..."
Blame Microsoft ;)
Dec 04 · 4 weeks ago
🚀 Minko_Ikana · Dec 04 at 14:16:
Something I have noticed about certain 3rd party apps, Linux apps also, the resource draw even just sitting idle is goiing off the charts . I'm starting to suspect possible Cryptojacking resources by those very "trusted" services. Would they take advantage of the situation and slip it in to run in the background? I don't trust any of them anymore. I have been using Librewolf instead of FF and like the security and it doesn't use hardly anything as for resources when sitting idle. I can't detect any real time API connections so far.
🚀 clseibold · Dec 04 at 19:12:
@Minko_Ikana I personally do trust Mozilla, I just think that web browsers are inefficient to begin with (which is part of why I'm trying to create gemini replacements for all of my essential web browsing services/sites). I wouldn't be surprised that memory leaks accidentally happen because webbrowsers are extremely complicated. So complicated that a sole developer basically cannot make a webbrowsers anymore if they wanted to.
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)
🚀 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?