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Is there a way to identify the busy (CPU-consuming) tab in Firefox? [duplicate]
Sometimes there's a nasty, guilty, CPU-hogging tab in Firefox that's maxing one of my CPU cores and making the whole browser sluggish. I'd like to find it and close it.
Sometimes I get lucky, but ...
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Do disabled Firefox extensions make Firefox slower?
Do disabled Firefox extensions make Firefox slower?
I know that extensions make browsing slower, but what about extensions that are disabled and not in use?
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"Task Manager" addon for Firefox? [closed]
Are there any addons for Firefox that can replicate the performance monitoring of Task Manager in Windows - seeing memory and CPU used - but for all the tabs in the current Firefox session?
I want to ...
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Why is my browser using so much memory?
I've recently had problems with Firefox running very slowly when I have many tabs open; say 20 tabs. My whole system would slow down.
I decided to give Google Chrome a try, and it started out fine. ...
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Does Adblock slow down Firefox?
You might have heard of the Adblock extension that has a massive list of URL filters to block out adverts from most websites. Does this slow down Firefox, considering that for every little image and ...
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Why does Firefox cause high-CPU-usage "spikes" every few seconds?
When I start Firefox, I have no problems for a while, but after a couple of days, CPU spikes start to occur. During a spike, Firefox freezes and then stops. Spikes occur every seven to ten seconds, ...
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How to make high performance cluster out of 2 laptops I have at home [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to combine processing power of 2 computers?
Hi,
I have 2 laptops at home. Could someone please suggest some free cluster softwares using which I can make a HPC ...
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Firefox on Mac: Slow, slow, slow
On my Macbook, Firefox is slow. Really slow. It takes about 30 minutes to start up - when I wake up, I start it, and once I am done breakfast, it's usually done. And, it takes a super-duper long time ...
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Profiling add-ons in firefox
One new feature of ie9 I like is that it alerts you to which add-ons are making your browser run slowly. Is there a way to get access to similar information in firefox?
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Why is Firefox 3.0 so slow in Linux?
I'm running Firefox 3.0.14 32-bit on Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit.
It's much slower than in Windows XP on the same machine.
Does anyone know why?
Also, what's a possible way to improve the performance?
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Firefox still working in memory after being closed
I'm about ready to give up on Firefox, because whenever I shut it down, it's still working in the background, and if I leave it up it, then over time it works more and more. My hard drive is really ...
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How to investigate why my firefox is so slow?
My Firefox v3.5.2 has loads of extensions (48 total, 33 enabled), also considerable database of visited pages and in general rather old profile. Flash is disabled by NoScript, so this is not an issue.
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What is Firefox doing?
If one watches Firefox's CPU consumption, one can see it consuming large amounts of CPU even while it's not being interacted with. On lower-spec computers, this can cause performance problems that ...
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Optimized versions of Firefox: are they worth it?
I've seen that some people have compiled themselves so-called "optimized" versions of Firefox, from the official source code.
One example of such an optimized build is the "Blazing Fast", from Binary ...
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Disable CSS animations on Firefox
I found CSS animations to be slow and most of the time useless. They make website feel heavy and laggy especially if I'm already using my CPU for other tasks.
Therefore, I would like to disable CSS ...
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