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¿Firefox "hanging»For a few moments at open many pages suddenly? Strangely, Firefox "hangs" doesn't increase CPU or memory usage out of control ... So, what is the problem? And, better yet, how to fix it? |
After much analysis of the issue, I discovered that the problem in question is not caused by a bug, nor by an extension that is causing problems (although this could be happening in your case) nor is it a "disadvantage" of the version for Linux, etc.
The source of the problem is the way Firefox is handling requests to load the different elements of the pages. You can think of it as a pipe: as we overload it, it becomes saturated and clogged.
First of all, start Firefox as follows and see if it keeps "hanging":
firefox --safe-mode
A good site to test is Taringa . Open 7-10 posts at the same time and see if Firefox crashes.
In case it is, I typed the following in the address bar
about: config
Next, look for the network.http.max-connections option . If it's set to a very high number (256, for example), double-click on that line and enter a new value: 48 is a more reasonable number.
Close Firefox and reopen it. The improvement is not impressive, but you will notice that it "saturates" less. In addition, you will notice that some pages that did not finish loading, now they will.
Load Tabs Progressively
For the end I leave you the strawberry of the dessert: Load Tabs Progressively.
It is an extension that gradually loads the eyelashes. It is possible to configure how many we want them to load simultaneously. For example, if we put 4, no matter how much we load 15 tabs, it will open 4 at a time.
If you ask me, this is an option that should appear by default in Firefox as it will TREMELY improve performance and, let's face it, no one looks at all tabs at once so the "cost" we must pay is minimal.
This is the ultimate solution to Firefox "hangs" when opening multiple pages simultaneously. I assure you that you will notice the difference.