• Welcome to Overclockers Forums! Join us to reply in threads, receive reduced ads, and to customize your site experience!

firefox laggin 6 seconds very often

Overclockers is supported by our readers. When you click a link to make a purchase, we may earn a commission. Learn More.
N8N8N8

N8N8N8

Member
​
Joined
Feb 11, 2010
Location
PA
Hi again

The last 5 days I have notice that firefox has been lagging about 6seconds very often. Like every time I switch a window or click with my mouse. It being very very annoying.:bang head. I scanned my pc and its clean. Used avast, spybot and malware bytes. It lagges when watching videos, tying and just about very thing. Im puzzled why it happening. I did not install or update anything either. Rest of the pc works fine only internet with firefox.


Thanks
 
Mandrake4565 said:
Did you check your internet connection and/or speeds?
Click to expand...

yes I just got off the phone with them and they said its not on there end.

Speed test is 6mbps dl .80mbps up

I also notice firefox is using 700mb of ram and when it lagges it using 1100 mb of ram and plugin container for firefox is using 450mb of ram. What heck that seems massiveeeeeeee.
 
If you start Firefox in "safe mode" (you can do it through the start menu), does it have the same issue? If not, you likely have a broken addon/plugin.
 
I have that same issue with FF sometimes, I think it's called memory leak. It doesn't cause any lag in my system, though. When you shut down FF does it still show up in processes tab in the windows task manager? Did you try any other browsers to see if you have the same issue? If you are hard wired to the net did you check the wire?
 
Mandrake4565 said:
When you shut down FF does it still show up in processes tab in the windows task manager?
Click to expand...

Firefox 2 was the worst for that bug. Firefox 2 had the process-still-there-when-closed bug the worst, IIRC.

But seems to occur sometimes with recent versions.

And recent versions may use almost 1 GB for 2 tabs! :mad:
 
thideras said:
What version are you running? Mine definitely do not come anywhere near this and I have way more than 2 tabs open.
Click to expand...
Yeah I have like 300MB used with 20+ tabs open. I've also configured the browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers field to 1 though so that's a major part of the low usage. Not that it really matters, as with 16GB RAM usage is largely meaningless as long as I have enough spare for Photoshop.
 
thideras said:
What version are you running? Mine definitely do not come anywhere near this and I have way more than 2 tabs open.
Click to expand...

That was with 12.0. All of a sudden, major lag and it freezed,
IIRC and it looked like Windows was swapping like Windows 95 with 4 MB of RAM!

I have 13.0 now.
 
RJARRRPCGP said:
That was with 12.0. All of a sudden, major lag and it freezed,
IIRC and it looked like Windows was swapping like Windows 95 with 4 MB of RAM!

I have 13.0 now.
Click to expand...
I'm running 12.0 on my laptop now with 14 tabs open (including at least one with flash) and it is taking 369 MiB of RAM with a near stock configuration (plus a few addons). You probably had a broken addon or plugin.
 
mine has been doing the same thing atwork just after it updated the other day maybe yesterday it was annoying at first but i got used to it.
 
I updated to the new version of ff and that took the problem away. Only thing is I really dont like the new interface.
 
If you are referring to the menu bar, you can disable that. I found it annoying as well.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Max0r
New build, all sorts of choices, and questions -- TLDR alert
Replies
1
Views
539
EarthDog
EarthDog
M
FX-8350 @ 4.5 Show/Story/Struggle Thread
2
Replies
34
Views
4K
MstrRoshi
M
rebelwarlock
Something really fishy going on with firefox
Replies
7
Views
996
c627627
c627627
c627627
How I modded my Windows 10 installation - How (not) to install Windows 10
Replies
2
Views
9K
c627627
c627627
O
Severe external HD slowdown on WD Elements TB
Replies
1
Views
516
kyij
kyij
Back