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Firefox becomes slow after a couple of weeks open (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Does anyone have this issue were firefox becomes slow if left open for a long time. In my case after a couple of weeks rendering becomes slow and when I use youtube for example if is laggy, just trying to change volume taka few second to show the volume bar. It also happens to my laptop at work. I have around 30 tabs open.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Under about:unloads, you will see a list of open tabs, sorted by resource usage. You can click-spam the "Unload" button until that list is empty, or until the most resource-intensive tabs are off the list.

This does not require any third-party dependencies, and the tab will still be present on top. The site will reload once the tab is selected again.