Firefox eats my CPU
Basically I restart my computer and firefox takes about 10-30% of my CPU. I don't open any new tabs or do anything differently, and by the next day it's eating 90% of my CPU. Sometimes closing down firefox and restarting it resets it back to the previous state, but sometimes it just almost immediately jumps back to being a CPU hog and the only thing I can do is restart my computer. Usually when I close firefox, my computer goes to using 10% or less of my CPU, and I had been forced to close firefox because it had been hovering around 100% total.
I am mostly watching youtube videos, and usually have about a total of 10 tabs open, most of them inactive. I use two windows and have the youtube playing in one, and am browsing low impact websites in the other.
I have addblock plus, noscript, and ReloadMatic, which I use to reload a page that is text and a few dozen very small images.
I've had this problem since before Firefox updated to Quantum, but it seems to be getting worse. I was hoping that the way firefox is now multiple processes in my task manager was indicative of a new system that would allow it to release resources once it was done with them, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Instead it just makes it harder for me to tell how much resources it's actually using, since I can't look at one thing and get a number.
My dad has a similar problem with firefox slowly building up and hogging all of his computer's resources, and his is even a bit of a beast (I think it has 8 processors...)
Ausgewählte Lösung
Try to disable accessibility services in Firefox.
- Options/Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Prevent accessibility services from accessing your browser
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/accessibility-services
- http://techdows.com/2017/08/firefox-57-prevent-accessibility-services-accessing-browser.html
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Ok, well should have asked for a fix long ago. There was one for 56, 57. 57.02 should have solved the issue as fix was in 57.0.1
A miss-conception about Ram and usage. https://www.howtogeek.com/334594/stop-complaining-that-your-browser-uses-lots-of-ram-its-a-good-thing/
I gather you have 8gigs, you never said. Just because you can run WIn10 does not mean you should. You could try this please : Go the Menu then Tools --> Options --> Performance and untick everything. change the recommended size lower then see how it runs. Note: 0 = No Multiprocessor = slow again. TRY 2 Restart Firefox after making these changes please.
Older system that have never had there Motherboard Drivers or Chipset Drivers updated will have issues with anything. 8gigs is not the norm anymore, 16 is minimum.
adapterDescription: Intel(R) HD Graphics 620 adapterDescription2: NVIDIA GeForce 930MX driverDate: 10-20-2016 driverDate2: 2-6-2017
Disable in Bios the Intel chip, it is in the number 1 spot when should have the other as #1. Also it is a conflict, and produces heat.
adapterRAM2: 2048 is low in today's computers.
Resize your Trash Can to something less ridiculous than stock #'s as it takes ram and space.
Go through Menu and Right Click everything that can be uninstalled that you do not use. Go through every single thing in Settings and turn off what you do not use. Right Click and uninstall everything that cam be. Delete offline Maps, stop from downloading them. Use Google Maps instead.
Make a Folder on the Desktop Called Tools : Download and place Tool in there. Like https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 which will stop Win10 from using gigs of your internet and free some ram. Download a new one every time there is a Windows big Update and copy/replace, then run it. Go through every article and see what you can do to enhance Win10 https://www.howtogeek.com/t/windows10/ and lower Ram usage.
That Screen Shot looks a little weird. Should have 1 instance of Firefox running with the arrow which opens and that will be tabs and Extensions.
Should not have all those singles. Are you pressing the Launch Short cut for more instances of Firefox. If so Stop it. Right Click and open tabs or new Windows. 3 Bar Menu the same.
If not clicking for new instances and those are not new windows then there is a issue.
The amount of Ram you are using is nothing. That is normal to less than. I have 32 gigs I use 800-1000.
58 will be out soon. It brings Multi-Thread.
My Malwarebytes takes the same amount of Ram to run. Norton Security, takes 25megs Each Extension give or take uses 20megs of Ram.
Need to Stop services and programs that do not need to run at boot. They only run when you click the EXE file to start them.
Finally : https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4002019/windows-10-improve-pc-performance
The alternative is to move to the Extended Release Version 52.5.2 ESR
Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.
Ausgewählte Lösung
Try to disable accessibility services in Firefox.
- Options/Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Prevent accessibility services from accessing your browser
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/accessibility-services
- http://techdows.com/2017/08/firefox-57-prevent-accessibility-services-accessing-browser.html
I do have 8 gigs of RAM, but it's the CPU that's being eaten. The RAM is mostly fine, which is why I didn't mention it. Note in my screenshot my CPU is at 96%, but my RAM is 64%. My processor is a Intel i5-72000U @ 2.50GHz.
As to the multiple instances of firefox running, that's just how it works after they updated me to Quantum. I don't know why. I always launch one instance of firefox and open new tabs and new windows through the program. I do use the feature to restore my last session, and when I launch firefox ALL those instances launch at the same time.
As to the screenshot looking strange, I have it set to sort by what's using the most CPU so I could show that firefox was using the vast majority of it. And I can't sort by program because the main firefox process that shows when I do that isn't normally the hog. It's one or more background processes that eats things.
Because you got going on RAM when that's not my problem, I'm honestly not sure if there's anything worth looking at in your proposed solutions...
Edit: Sorry, cor-el, I went to hit "not helpful" for the first reply I got, and didn't see that I had gotten a second reply while I was typing. I'll try that.
Edit: Just disabled the Accessiblity thing and it's already using a LOT less of my CPU on first startup. I don't know if it will fix the building CPU usage problem, but so far I'm glad I did it.
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Cor-el's response shouild have taken place with the update to 57.01
You could try this please : Go the Menu then Tools --> Options --> Performance and untick everything. change the recommended size lower then see how it runs. Note: 0 = No Multiprocessor = slow again. TRY 2 Restart Firefox after making these changes please.
Sorry, this was meant to be in the above. Got carried away.
Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.
I didn't do the multiprocessor thing because I'm not sure if it's actually intended to help CPU or RAM problems...
Turning off Accessibility Services seems to have helped. Firefox isn't just building and building like it was before.
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pokemonfan13 said
I didn't do the multiprocessor thing because I'm not sure if it's actually intended to help CPU or RAM problems... Turning off Accessibility Services seems to have helped. Firefox isn't just building and building like it was before.
Actually you did do the multiprocessor thing. 56.02 turned them on for use with code to be ready for 57. 57.0 Is using them. 57.01 had the fix as said.
If still having issues : Go the 3 Bar Menu then Options --> General --> Performance and untick everything. change the recommended size lower then see how it runs. Note: 0 = No Multiprocessor = slow again. Try 2 Restart Firefox after making these changes please.
Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance