[FRIAM] firefox and memory

[lrudolph at meganet.net]

Since 57.0.2 installed itself on my (4 year old W7Professional) machine, Firefox has run 
*much* *slower*.  Bah, humbug.

> Did you get v57, Quantum?  It should be much faster..
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Dec 7, 2017, at 9:42 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net<mailto:nickthompson at earthlink.net>> wrote:
> 
> Hi, everybody,
> 
> Recently Firefox updated itself and since that time my machine - an elderly W7 -- has been running slow.  In the resource manager I noticed that where it used to open one process, sometimes as large as half a gig, it now opens several processes, the total of which can easily exceed 1 G.  At that point, my machine runs like molasses.  Is Firefox no longer browser to the stars?
> 
> N
> 
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
> Clark University
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
> 
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