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Hi Wolf,<br>
<br>
I subscribe to xmarks premium to sync my bookmarks across all devices
including android. I had data corruption once using the FF sync.
Xmarks seems very reliable. Lastpass now owns xmarks, and I subscribe
to their premium service too to make my passwords accessible across all
devices.<br>
<br>
I've put the brakes on FF memory hogging by using the Memory Fox
plugin. See the last post I made about FF cpu usage for info on that.
It continuously cleans the FF memory footprint. I currently have 6
browsers and about 80 tabs open. FF memory usage starts at about 50 MB
and slowly climbs to about 430 MB. I've never understood why. Then,
Memory Fox takes out the trash and it drops back to 50 MB again. This
happens continuously, but CPU usage is minimal (except the anomaly from
the other thread) and the maximum memory used before garbage collection
is tolerable considering how many tabs I have open. I no longer worry
about leaving all these tabs open for days at a time.<br>
<br>
By the way, Tree Style Tab is a fantastic addon that allows you to put
all those tabs in a vertical column on the side of the screen. It
works so much better than horizontal tabs.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/?src=search">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/?src=search</a><br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
<br>
<br>
On 3/11/2013 9:20 PM, Wolf Halton wrote:
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cite="mid:CALRLYEmSKt4z4UFvaL+hsQVvbVfC=f4+5TYH=XVcg9K2q0q7zA@mail.gmail.com"
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<p>16GB RAM on win7 and 25 tabs open.firefox is a ramhog. I am
leaning toward chrome. need to test head to head. 4GB RAM and ubuntu
studio, firefox still a ramhog. Firefox shockwave/ flash bot working.
Chrome on same machine and flash works. <br>
If chrome had sync like firefox, I would have switched over already.</p>
<p>Wolf</p>
<p>Wolf Halton<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://sourcefreedom.com">http://sourcefreedom.com</a><br>
Apache develope</p>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">My
current desktop is ram limited and I run firefox with a zillion tabs in
a million windows. It will eat up the ram then happily punt out to
swap. Page not touched in 3 hours may take 2 secs to reload but that's
OK with me.<br>
<br>
Get's fun when something crashes firefox and it reload all the windows
and tabs :-) First time I've been on a desktop class system instead of
a server class system as a desktop.<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Ron
Frazier (ALE) <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com" target="_blank">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi
all,<br>
<br>
I just picked up my laptop running Windows 7 and Firefox plus about 70
open tabs. This applies to Linux too. The bottom of the unit was so
hot that it was uncomfortable to touch. The fan was running furiously.
The first thing I thought was ventilation. The unit had been sitting
on some loose papers, so that might have had an effect. I have
speedfan running to monitor temperature. It's norm is 62 C and it was
up to 75 C. I removed all the loose papers. Then, I looked at the cpu
meter. It was pegged at around 70%, and Firefox was the main culprit.
Probably flash. I closed Firefox. The cpu was still sitting around
15 % with nothing happening. I loaded msconfig to see what was
starting up. On Linux, you could use top, htop, or system monitor.
However, those only tell you what's running, not what's in the startup
sequence, as far as I know. I found a number of things in the startup
sequence that I didn't want there, like a Citrix app for the once in a
year time that my wife uses my computer, adobe reader quickstart,
something related to cyberlink dvd programs, a daemon for updating the
firmware in my Sansa mp3 player (which I've done exactly once and will
probably never repeat), and several items from the manufacturer of the
pc, etc. I don't think anything is malicious, but, they're sitting
there using cpu time and electricity and creating heat. I hid all the
microsoft stuff in the list, then unchecked all the processes AND
SERVICES that I didn't think need to be starting. Be careful though.
You can break critical parts of your system, like updates, or sound,
or your touchpad. I rebooted and my idle cpu usage dropped to 1 % - 2
%. Now that's more like it.<br>
<br>
So, the moral of the story is that it pays to look at your process list
occasionally and trim the fat. The other moral is that it pays to keep
one eye on Firefox, especially if you have lots of tabs and especially
if you have flash or html 5 animation. I did some reading in the past
that indicated flash could bring a mobile device's battery to its knees.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ron</blockquote>
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(PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
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Ron Frazier
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linuxdude AT techstarship.com
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