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Firebox takes more runtime memory and it is very slow

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chinnu.muniyappan
chinnu.muniyappan
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Hi Team,

I have using firefox but it takes more run time memory. I have notice that the task manager the firebox alone takes 17068 MB and the firebox is very slow for loading pages and when entering input texts. And I have tried to open it to safe mode by still the hanging issue occurs.

Regards, Chinnu

Hi Team, I have using firefox but it takes more run time memory. I have notice that the task manager the firebox alone takes 17068 MB and the firebox is very slow for loading pages and when entering input texts. And I have tried to open it to safe mode by still the hanging issue occurs. Regards, Chinnu

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Shadow110
Shadow110
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Not much info came with your request.

Please list your Extensions. Firefox latest version is 56.0.2 try and update via Help then About.

Check if is on please MULTI-PROCESSOR See if Multi-Processor Support is turned on. Multi-processor support feature may be disabled depending on your setup (it was for me) - you can check this by launching Firefox, then enter in "about:support" in the address bar; near the bottom, you should see a heading that says: "Multiprocess Windows", then look at the value next to it. If it says "0/1", then that means it's disabled.

Report back please

cor-el
cor-el
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You can try to modify multi-process settings to see if this has effect.

  • set dom.ipc.processCount to 1 if it is currently set to a higher value (4)
  • disable multi-process windows in Firefox

You can disable multi-process windows in Firefox by setting these prefs to false on the about:config page.

  • browser.tabs.remote.autostart = false
  • browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2 = false

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.