I did find the refresh firefox and today it seems less buggy/crashy but given I've seen a real reduction in stability and performance on multiple systems it really does seem like something has changed for the worse. My gut likes the advertisements as a contributing factor as it seems many functions are stalled until the side banner is loaded. I generally have 12 or more tabs on my home page and that may increase the issues but that has always how I've been running so something has changed IMHO.
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On Aug 9, 2016, at 10:51 PM, Mark Spano cutandcover@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:I think it doesn't manage memory well if you take advantage of tabbed browsing, which I think we all do. Chrome is not entirely better, but it doesn't seem to grind as often as Firefox did. I still have some issues with certain sites (particularly when I'm moving through my RSS reader on Feedly), but where Firefox used to halt, Chrome at least allows me to dump the tab and reload it and we're back to normal operation. That's enough reason for me to change. Then there is the added slickness of Chrome's profile manager being tied to my Google account, so my bookmarks and history follow me wherever I sign in, which has been a plus.On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 1:21 AM, bigfish@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>wrote:That's interesting you mentioned a few months ago. That's probably about the same time I started having typing lags and just this afternoon I left it running idle and again it crashed leaving me with the crash reporter running. I did find Safari ran without issue all day today.
I wonder what has changed in firefox to make it sluggish and so unstable. Having seen this behavior on 3 different mac systems combined with your recent experience and choice seems to validate my experience as not tied to a particular computer issue. Has Firefox always been a memory hog? I can't say I've noticed that but I never really monitored it. I have noticed on my 2009 MBP running 10.6.8 that with my normal startup page with about 10 tabs I can see the computer heat up even when I'm not browsing on any page and when I start scrolling around FB or browsing the CPU temp kicks way up.
Did you determine Firefox was a memory hog by checking out Activity Monitor ram usage?
---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <cutandcover@...> wrote :I ditched Firefox as well, only a few months ago. It was my browser of
choice, until some changes made it sluggish and memory hog. Chrome is much
better, and I only use Firefox when I need a browser to load a 32-bit
plugin like the Aspera Connect browser plugin.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Benjamin Hershleder Ben@...
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> John, I ditched Firefox years ago because I was fed-up with the problems,
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> On Aug 9, 2016, at 4:00 PM, John Moore bigfish@... [Avid-L2] <
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> I've been seeing Firefox crash on several different systems the past month
> or two. In some cases I have updated Firefox but still see the crashes
> happening. I don't usually witness the crashes but with Firefox running in
> the background on my edit systems I end up seeing the crash reporter when I
> bounce out of Avid. This has happened on my work MacPro 10.8.5 and
> 10.9.5, my laptop while at work a MBP running 10.6.8, and my home edit
> system MacPro 10.9.5. I'm also seeing sluggish behavior on multiple
> systems where I type and it takes a few seconds to type out on screen.
> Given it's on several systems I'm beginning to suspect something changed in
> Firefox or maybe some delay due to loading all the banner ads.
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> On my home system it crashed twice while I had a long We Transfer upload
> going. I decided to try Safari and it seemed to be stable and working for
> two hours before I left for work this morning.
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> Anybody seeing this type of behavior? I have on some of the systems
> updated Adobe flash player recently to see if that was a possible cause.
> It dawns on me that background services on Avid might be interacting with
> things but this is just a guess and I am seeing the crashes even without
> Avid running. Curious if anybody has heard anything along these lines.
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> John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@...
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