Tag Archives: FireFox

This Looks Like Why FireFox Is A Pig

Posted on 10 December 2018 by E.M.Smith

Is the FireFox memory hog behaviour all down to lack of ‘garbage collection’ in the language used to write it (rust) and the programmers not doing it actively themselves? Some evidence for that… Continue reading →

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Firefox Is A Memory Hog With Memory Freeing Issues

Posted on 12 May 2018 by E.M.Smith

Adventures in Macintosh land with mini-SD card performance / size limits and FireFox excessive memory use (leak?) and Macintosh sloppy swap management… Continue reading →

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There’s an App for That – disable Tab Tearing in Firefox

Posted on 20 July 2016 by E.M.Smith

A nice app / add-on to stop a stupid developer from screwing with my life and wasting my time with ‘tear off’ tabs… Continue reading →

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Fedora on Pi – a short note

Posted on 30 October 2015 by E.M.Smith

A small test drive of Berryboot Fedora on the Raspberry Pi Model 2, and finding Firefox a nice fast browser compared to the Debian / IceApe and Debian / IceWeasel ports. Continue reading →

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