On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 10:44:02AM +0100, Phil Thane wrote:
>
> If you're not familiar the 3rd col shows % of CPU being used and the 4th is % of RAM.
>
> As you can see FF opens a lot more processes and three of them are serious resource hogs. Anyone else found this?
> Guess I'll just use ghostery all the time though it doesn't have all the FF plugins I use. But maybe that's the issue?
>

The processes are used for security reasons to isolate each site/tab from
each other so they don't share memory space.

Have you tried just adding ghostery to normal firefox? what the likely
explanation is that all the javascript which is blocked by ghostery isn't
getting loaded which can eat memory. It's probably not that one is more of
a resource hog than the other, it's just the one where ghostery is enabled
is doing less overall. 

As an aside, I would look at getting some more RAM if possible, 4GB isn't
a lot these days! If it's something unusual and expensive to get hold of
then maybe ask on here, I've got sticks of RAM kicking about that I no
longer need but can't be bothered to test and sell either, sometimes as I
no longer have suitable machines to test it in.

Adam
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