obobskivich wrote:

Anonymous Coward wrote:

I think the better question is: Why do I need 8GB of memory and a 3GHz multicore CPU just to get on the web?

Ask modern web developers/publishers (and/or Adobe); they're the ones that've pushed outrageously heavy multimedia content as the "standard" for relaying fairly basic levels of information. 😵

Just the other I was ranting about what the Internet has turned into. You could sum it up like this: cat videos, memes, idiotic lists, gossip, stuff that's supposed to blow you away (usually just some soppy videos), Flash. Now when I think of it, I kind of miss the simple web from the mid-late nineties...

I'm actually affected by this bug and what's worse, on my laptop it even crashes the whole system from running out of memory.

The firefox I'm using on my laptop is older than current because my arch install on that laptop is cluster-ucked and I haven't been able to properly migrate from all the "deprecated" switches and everything... It also doesn't have that annoyingly bad "Australias" theme that they should of kept to themselves forever.

But anyways on topic about the bug: If you open alot of image links, like direct image links, or browse image boards (which I do on a daily basis), firefox skyrockets to 1 GB and even if I'm not doing anything it will spike to 100% (or in this case 25%) CPU usage every 30 or so seconds... Closing out all those tabs and pages doesn't free the memory back nor stop the CPU spikes.

Are the firefox devs ignoring problems or creating problems?

Yeah, Australis is utter garbage. Obvious Chrome knock-off, but with reduced functionality compared to the (not exactly great either) design they previously had... even with Classic Theme Restorer it's still missing the header on top, and the bookmark star icon doesn't indicate already bookmarked sites anymore.

Of course they don't acknowledge any of the problems with their browser, but what are they supposed to do? Call it a memory-hogging sluggish piece of crap? If it was trivial fixing these issues they would have done it a long time ago, considering they are present for years now. For me using an SSD at least seems to help with large amounts of dropped frames on Youtube, which really is my biggest gripe with Firefox.

For shits & giggles I did a SunSpider JS benchmark run on Firefox 24.5 ESR with & without ABP.

Disabling AdBlock did improve the benchmark score, but by just 1.6%, which is actually within the test's quoted MoE (+/- 3.3%) More interesting were the RAM figures:

W/ ABP: ~198MB RAM on-load, ~303MB peak, ~220MB after a GC
w/o: ~160MB RAM on-load, ~216MB peak, ~148MB after a GC

Of course, SunSpider isn't image-heavy but it will serve my curiosity's purposes. In any event, I won't be disabling it. 😉

eL_PuSHeR wrote:

Agreed. I haven't noticed anything troubling either. Adblock Plus is a must have.

Use Adblock EDGE. Adwhores Plus got paid off to create a whitelist in later versions.

d1stortion wrote:

Yeah, Australis is utter garbage. Obvious Chrome knock-off, but with reduced functionality compared to the (not exactly great either) design they previously had... even with Classic Theme Restorer it's still missing the header on top, and the bookmark star icon doesn't indicate already bookmarked sites anymore.

Terrible. And on my HD monitor you wind up with a borderless stop/refresh button 1 square centimeter high which your mouse has to reach really fast. I complained about this on Bugzilla and they made a tasteless remark that I had some kind of accessibility issue.

Not to mention the constant crashing, even with Classic Theme Restorer installed.

redblade7 wrote:

eL_PuSHeR wrote:

Agreed. I haven't noticed anything troubling either. Adblock Plus is a must have.

Use Adblock EDGE. Adwhores Plus got paid off to create a whitelist in later versions.

I have it installed on SeaMonkey

Much rather have my system utilizing resources to fight ads instead of having my system's resources being used to display a million flash ads on one basic page.

redblade7 wrote:

eL_PuSHeR wrote:

Agreed. I haven't noticed anything troubling either. Adblock Plus is a must have.

Use Adblock EDGE. Adwhores Plus got paid off to create a whitelist in later versions.

"Acceptable Ads" can be turned off, or is there more to it?

d1stortion wrote:

"Acceptable Ads" can be turned off, or is there more to it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_plus#Con … ad_whitelisting

Seems like there may or may not be more to it than just disabling Acceptable Ads. Regardless, there are other services that haven't taken the pay-to-play approach to adblocking, and imho those are the ones that should be supported, even if they aren't the trendiest/hippest.

I installed Adblock Edge, but the filter settings don't seem to work for me...