PaleMoon 28 memory and CPu usage
Posted: 2018-09-12, 08:21
Hello,
first, thanks for the continued work on PaleMoon.
I switched to 28.0 and 28.0.1 on a few machines in September. Some CentOS based, some Fedora based, no trouble. Then I got a machine with Elementary OS 0.4, which is an Ubuntu derivative. Installed from the package manager, duplicated the profile for another machine.
And the fun began. CPU usage at 100% at start, memory growing like mad, UI unresponsive. Had a hard time switching to a terminal and killing the process. Then I tested in safe mode: everything went smoothly. Then I took note of all the installed extensions, removed them all and re-installed. To discover that some of them where not maintained since years while other were not available anymore. But after reinstalling what was available through firefox or palemoon provided extensions, everything is back to normal.
So it seems that very old extensions may do nasty things. Would it be possible to incorporate, in the extension manager, some kind of warning with respect to extensions which are more than, say, two years old ?
Regards
Pascal
first, thanks for the continued work on PaleMoon.
I switched to 28.0 and 28.0.1 on a few machines in September. Some CentOS based, some Fedora based, no trouble. Then I got a machine with Elementary OS 0.4, which is an Ubuntu derivative. Installed from the package manager, duplicated the profile for another machine.
And the fun began. CPU usage at 100% at start, memory growing like mad, UI unresponsive. Had a hard time switching to a terminal and killing the process. Then I tested in safe mode: everything went smoothly. Then I took note of all the installed extensions, removed them all and re-installed. To discover that some of them where not maintained since years while other were not available anymore. But after reinstalling what was available through firefox or palemoon provided extensions, everything is back to normal.
So it seems that very old extensions may do nasty things. Would it be possible to incorporate, in the extension manager, some kind of warning with respect to extensions which are more than, say, two years old ?
Regards
Pascal