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Firefox becomes slow after a couple of weeks open (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

submitted 7 months ago by TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] spidertrolled@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Most software in general has hard to detect issues after several weeks of uptime. Its something that's fundamentally hard to test and fix. Its a big reason why "did you turn it off and on again" is such universal advice.

[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 6 points 7 months ago

People really out here treating their web browser like it's a mainframe

[–] ColonelThirtyTwo@pawb.social 3 points 7 months ago

Even if the software was perfect, virtually all desktop RAM isn't ECC equipped, so you potentially have even the hardware corrupting the state and requiring restarting because of that.