On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 12:08:40PM -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets > really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or > two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes > running. Memory is half full, and swap is about 10% used. When I kill > Firefox and restart, things go back to normal for a few hours. > > What alternatives that aren't such pigs do you recommend? >
If you're still running Debian 12.5 - you can check by listing the contents of /etc/debian_version which should read 12.8 - update Debian to the current version. Don't leave Firefox running for days with tabs open - close it periodically? Swap 10% used seems very high. You're running the firefox-esr version supplied in Debian stable? All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater (amaca...@debian.org)
