Re: 4GB RAM too little for Firefox?

On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 09:21:48PM +0200, maillists.rulmer@mailbox.org wrote:

> > OpenBSD derives some security by confining processes and web browsing
> > with firefox is notorious for memory leaks.
> >
> > If you mobo supports it, more ram will also improve performance with
> > firefox and other memory intensive tasks.
> Firefox is pretty much my only memory intensive task. Thanks for sharing
> your opinion, though! One more incentive to buy the new ram stick.
>
> > Other options:
> >
> > Adding the Firefox "forget" widget to your panel
> > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/forget-button-quickly-delete-your-browsing-his
> tory
> > and using it frequently.
> That seems more like a workaround to me.
>
> > Consider www/iridium as an alternative browser. You can export your
> > firefox bookmarks.html and import it into iridium. Although I do not
> > have solid numbers, I thought it was better in this regard than firefox.
> I wrote two little scripts [1] that open five reddit.com threads in each
> browser an print memory usage. The result was (besides my amazement
> about how much RAM the browsers ate), that Firefox used up ca. 1.4G and
> Iridium ca. 0.9G. I obviously haven't set up the same extensions, but it
> seems like Iridium would be able to help me. I'm going to try it some
> more. Thanks for the tip!
>
> Best regards,
> Richard Ulmer
>
>
> [1]
> ```
> printf 'Before starting Firefox:\n\t'
> top | grep Memory
> firefox --private-window 2>&1 > /dev/null &
> sleep 5 # Wait for firefox to open
> for i in c48qg7 c916tf c5n06b c0yvsz c2sco0; do
> firefox --private-window \
> "https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/$i"
> done
> sleep 30 # Wait for all tabs to load
> printf 'After starting Firefox:\n\t'
> top | grep Memory
> ```
>
> ```
> printf 'Before starting Iridium:\n\t'
> top | grep Memory
> iridium --incognito 2>&1 > /dev/null &
> sleep 5 # Wait for Iridium to open
> for i in c48qg7 c916tf c5n06b c0yvsz c2sco0; do
> iridium --incognito \
> "https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/$i"
> done
> sleep 30 # Wait for all tabs to load
> printf 'After starting Iridium:\n\t'
> top | grep Memory
> ```
>

You still did not tell which platform you are running. It matters.

-Otto