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177 points keepamovin | 8 comments | 02 Sep 25 10:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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Shank ◴[02 Sep 25 12:44 UTC] No.45102381[source]▶
Lately, I’ve experienced memory leaks in Firefox that I’m too amateur to diagnose, that leads to Firefox eating 8gb of memory in some web renderer process. So when I excitedly check the changelog hoping for a summary of possible changes, I’m disappointed that there isn’t a verbose changelog for advanced users. I’m sure I could search bugzilla, but it makes me sad that the only “important” things are the headlining features.
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1. gorhill ◴[02 Sep 25 13:32 UTC] No.45102888[source]▶
When trying to diagnose performance or memory issues with a browser, always start with the installed and enabled extensions.
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2. bilbo0s ◴[02 Sep 25 13:52 UTC] No.45103140[source]▶
Yep. Can’t upvote this enough.

Next up would be looking closer at the pages you frequent. I think many people would be surprised at all the ways web apps screw up these days.

All that said, the browsers, as unfair as it may seem, should do better at handling all of the slop that web app and extension developers put out there. It’s sometimes just a whole lot easier to make the browser more bulletproof than it is to make a bajillion JavaScript/python monkeys conscientious and competent.

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3. rcfox ◴[02 Sep 25 14:44 UTC] No.45103788[source]▶
These days, I'd say always start with the YouTube tabs.
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4. ambicapter ◴[02 Sep 25 14:50 UTC] No.45103871[source]▶
Youtube is just hopelessly broken on Firefox/Linux anyways. Half the time the home page doesn't even load.
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5. mdaniel ◴[02 Sep 25 15:03 UTC] No.45104035[source]▶
An alternate between those two endpoints would be to offer better tooling to enable both users and monkeys to identify things contributing to bad outcomes. I don't just mean devtools, either, I mean "oh, it seems this tab is taking up $foo memory because the background image is a 400MB .mp4 and ..." type thing. They went through all the trouble to put AI in the browser, so ask it :-/
6. jlarocco ◴[02 Sep 25 15:06 UTC] No.45104064{3}[source]▶
What type of problems do you have? I use YouTube in Firefox on Linux almost every day and as far as I can tell it's working perfectly.

I don't go to the home page, though, only access videos via search (using !yt on Kagi) and by clicking around related videos.

I don't see any memory issues that the OP is talking about, either. Maybe uBlock is fixing it for me?

7. Yizahi ◴[02 Sep 25 15:11 UTC] No.45104127{3}[source]▶
Same, it started this year. Once a week or two YT just refuses to render its page completely.
8. birksherty ◴[02 Sep 25 15:43 UTC] No.45104601{3}[source]▶
I only use ff on windows. No issue. I do have premium. May be adblocking YT is broken. I have ublock turned on too, but no issue.