Firefox gobbling memory and CPU resources at startup

xtbjeff — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 15:10:52 GMT

I restart my computer every day (Windows 7). At startup I always open Thundebird and Firefox. Maybe a month or two ago my computer started locking up soon after that, which I traced to Firefox gobbling all the memory and CPU time. If I don't catch it early enough, the only recovery is the reset button. But If I catch it while the Firefox is still gobbling memory, I can use Task Manager to shut down Firefox. Everything works normally after Firefox is restarted. This is kind of a pain, and through Google I've read about others having a similar problem. But any suggestions haven't made a difference. I hope you can resolve this in a future update. I have a screen capture of Task Manager at today's Firefox shutdown, but couldn't paste the jpg into this message. C:FirefoxShutdown.jpg

Re: Firefox gobbling memory and CPU resources at startup

Agentvirtuel — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 17:19:51 GMT

Hello

Is this information useful to you?

Use the Troubleshooting Information page to help fix Firefox issues
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-troubleshooting-information-page-fix-firefox
Memory Use: Clicking on about:memory will take you to a page that shows memory usage. For more information, see this blog post

about:memory https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/performance/memory/about_colon_memory.html
Enter in Firefox address bar about:memory
Click on the Measure button

Additional information https://profiler.firefox.com
If you wish, study Firefox Profiler https://profiler.firefox.com/docs

Take a look https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/why-so-many/m-p/45196/highlight/true#M16315

Otherwise, do you know
Firefox users on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 moving to Extended Support Release
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-windows-7-8-and-81-moving-extended-support

Otherwise, do you know
According to https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/beta/Ta0335ce0a41fa07e-M31c08501af76ab6c3d91fec6
Windows: Windows 10 or later - Windows 7 and Windows 8* are desupported
Mac: macOS 10.15 or later - macOS 10.14 is desupported
System Requirements https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/116.0beta/system-requirements 116.0 bêta

Firefox Release Calendar
https://whattrainisitnow.com/calendar
Thunderbird release cycle Extended Support Releases (ESR) for organizations
https://enterprise.thunderbird.net/explore/thunderbird-release-cycle
Thunderbird releases are maintained for more than a year with point releases that coincide with the rapid releases of the Mozilla platform

For my part, illustration https://forums.mozfr.org/viewtopic.php?p=949449#p949449 with Windows7, I installed Linux, Firefox 120.01 and Thunderbird 115.5.1, it's ok, as for my Linux discovery, at first glance, installation and use are cool

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