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177 points keepamovin | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 10:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.32s | source
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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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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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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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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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1. jlarocco ◴[02 Sep 25 15:06 UTC] No.45104064[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?