Dear Long Wind: Usually I don't reply AOL but in this case I second that. I'm an unhappy Firefox-user on Debian and am looking for alternatives. Yes, I do have many tabs open, 'cause I need them. I got plenty of memory but Firefox does not seem to use it efficiently.
On Sunday, December 16, 2018 9:32:07 AM -03 Long Wind wrote: > i have 52.9.0 and 45.9.0, both for stretch > new one often becomes unresponsive, or slows down extremely ... > and i have to close it and restart it > it often happens when i first start it > maybe some function/service is blocked in China I cannot second this behaviour. Do you use some or many extensions? Maybe legacy add-ons? What about scripting on those pages? Here often enough scripts are stopped. > it seems it's doing something impossible, and takes much cpu resource > but old firefox also face blocking Often 1 cpu of 4 is 100% in use without anything happening. > > i can't describe it in more details or reproduce problem Same here. Modern browsers are such a conglomerate of code that describing a problem is very difficult or impossible, even less pinning it down, not to mention debugging it. Unfortunately I also was never happy with Safari on OSX nor with IE or later with Edge on Win7 or 10 when I was compelled to use it. My use of Firefox on OSX or Win10 is not as intense as on Linux so I cannot directly compare the OSes in this respect. As a consequence I shall not throw blame on the OS. Life is too short for browsers. Cheers, Eike -- Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE Yes, grey does matter. For the 'Mercans: gray does matter.
