Browser slowing down

[Oversleep]

My computer started choking and after a while Firefox told me that this tab slows down the browser. Does anybody know why is that and what can I do to prevent that? I started with disabling notifications.

Edited November 12, 2016 by Oversleep

[Elenion he/him]

3 hours ago, Oversleep said:

My computer started choking and after a while Firefox told me that this tab slows down the browser. Does anybody know why is that and what can I do to prevent that? I started with disabling notifications.

If you answer a few questions, I might be able to help you:

1. How much RAM do you have installed on your computer? (If you don't know how to check this I can get you instructions)

2. How long had the tab been open for? Just for the session? Overnight?

3. How many notifications do you get in a given hour?

4. How many other applications do you usually have open?

5. What part of the forums were you in?

I may have an idea as to what's going wrong, but I can't be sure.

[Oversleep]

31 minutes ago, Elenion said:

1. How much RAM do you have installed on your computer? (If you don't know how to check this I can get you instructions)

4 GB (avalaible 3,88)

31 minutes ago, Elenion said:

2. How long had the tab been open for? Just for the session? Overnight?

Session - not more than 12 hours.

31 minutes ago, Elenion said:

3. How many notifications do you get in a given hour?

Do you mean in that specific hour or just average?

31 minutes ago, Elenion said:

4. How many other applications do you usually have open?

Notepad, Devcpp, windows media player, firefox: 4 or 5 tabs total (no videos; one of tabs was Facebook)

31 minutes ago, Elenion said:

5. What part of the forums were you in?

Random Stuff, trying to edit my post.

Edited November 13, 2016 by Oversleep

[Elenion he/him]

1 hour ago, Oversleep said:

Do you mean in that specific hour or just average?

Either. Just trying to get an idea of how often a notification script would be triggered.

 

What it looks like to me is that you may have just built up a bunch of Firefox scripts running over time while you were on for the session. All browsers tend to build up excess scripts the longer that they've been running (which is why they get pretty sluggish when left open overnight), and on my computers Firefox especially tends to run heavy on RAM. Solutions to this would be disabling unneeded scripts (like notifications, browser add-ons like Norton Toolbar, any ads in other tabs, etc.) and, if Firefox continues to run slowly, closing all tabs and restarting the application fresh.

Hope this helps!

[Chaos he/him]

This might also be fixed when I do some site updates soon(TM) as that generally updates performance. But if it's an issue it is likely connected with IPS and not a lot I can directly do.

Also you poor thing with 4GB of RAM. That is painful.

[Oversleep]

11 minutes ago, Chaos said:

Also you poor thing with 4GB of RAM. That is painful.

It's my laptop which I bought so I can carry it to the classes at the uni. So you know, price took priority. It's OK.

Someday I'll finally build my stationary PC.