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Originally Posted by Blossom
You're not kidding. I tried to install a portable version but after going in circles over and hour I gave up. It kept updating no matter what settings I tried.
I finally found a portable version of 53 ESR and that worked. I use FEBE so all I had to do was copy a backup from last year into 53. So now I have 53 and 58. I prefer 53. It runs like a dream. I really do not like Quantum but will keep it so Edge doesn't get made default.
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Mozilla has already published the Firefox ESR update schedule. It is not intended to be a permanent solution. It's purely to allow organizations running Firefox to properly plan and prepare for upgrades. As I recall, come the release of Firefox 60,
that will become the new ESR version, and you will be back where you are now if ESR updates.
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I use process explorer to monitor hogs. It helps track down leaks. It showed the extensions I was using causing the huge jump. The main culprit was Ad Block Plus switched to Ublock Origin and that helped.
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I use Process Explorer here, and I'd love to know what you were looking at. See the attached screenshot of the Firefox Quantum processes displayed in PE. Tell me which you think represents extensions?
Chrome makes that simpler -
everything in Chrome is a separate OS process - the browser itself, each open tab, each installed extension - and it's easy to see what is taking what RAM. Chrome provides fine grained control at the expense of
system overhead. Processes are relatively expensive, as they must be created, maintained, and terminated by the OS. It's why programs that must have multiple things going on normally use threads instead of process, but threads have limitations that make them unsuitable for this.
Quantum uses a different model that I explained earlier. It uses less system overhead, and a goal of Mozilla going forward will be increasing the granularity of content containers to provide better control over usage by open tabs. But meanwhile, one complaint about Quantum under Windows is that it
doesn't provide the additional information to let things like PE clearly identify just what those various sub-processes
are.
Agreed about the superiority of uBlock Origin to ABP. I never ran ABP. I'm not that fanatical about blocking ads, and didn't care for the overhead involved in using it.
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Dennis