Re: High memory usage with www/firefox and www/seamonkey on amd64

[herbert langhans <w3%langhans.com.pl@localhost>]

    From: Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson%gmail.com@localhost> [140218 15:56]
    On 18/02/14 14:14, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
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    > Firefox is also a greedy monster on FreeBSD, both in memory & ~/.mozilla 
    
       Sorry; slightly off-topic..
       With regards to disk space: Just in case anyone missed it; I'm
    assuming most of you know this already..
       I backup my firefox profile directory during daily maintenance
    ("clear cache on exit" is a must), and I noticed a few firefox versions
    back that those backups suddenly started growing to obscene proportions.
    Turned out firefox had started saving "thumbnails" of pages I have
    visited. I would have thought that it would save at most nine thumbnails
    (considering that it shows nine tiles for commonly visited pages), but I
    soon realized that it saved _a lot_ of thumbnails, for many different
    sites, and happily stored them in the profile directory. Nice, large,
    24-bit PNG's.
       I disabled the feature completely, and cleaned up the already
    existing thumbnails, and now I can backup my browser profile again.
       It obviously won't stop the profile from growing, but to me the rate
    of growth has been acceptable without the thumbnails.
       /Jan

In combination with a proxy on a local server and firefox on a client you dont 
have to deal with this mess.

I have squid running on the server, firefox settings are 0 MB for swap
and its rather quick. Also it doesnt bother the slowish laptop harddisk. 

If you have the environment for it, give it a try..

herb langhans