firefox memory usage - 1GB!

The slowdown on Amazon.com in Firefox is not only something you notice...its something many have seen. For some reason Firefox does not handle the JavaScript on Amazon very well. There is a Reddit thread about this and some solutions you may want to try.

The simplest and quickest for me was to install uBlock and add "images-amazon.com/*.js" to my filter. From there on Amazon loads lightning fast again. The downside is you can no longer flip through pictures of items on Amazon with multiple images.

The Reddit threads can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/com...lowness_keeps/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/com...owdown/crangwo

genesishep said:

The slowdown on Amazon.com in Firefox is not only something you notice...its something many have seen. For some reason Firefox does not handle the JavaScript on Amazon very well. There is a Reddit thread about this and some solutions you may want to try.

The simplest and quickest for me was to install uBlock and add "images-amazon.com/*.js" to my filter. From there on Amazon loads lightning fast again. The downside is you can no longer flip through pictures of items on Amazon with multiple images.

The Reddit threads can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/com...lowness_keeps/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/com...owdown/crangwo

Glad to hear it's not just me, but frustrating that this has to happen. So basically break the functionality of images on the site with a ublock filter or deal with Amazon's poor javascript. Thanks for that link though - I'll give it a read.

You'll notice by looking at my specs that I'm running 32bit so I can't add more RAM - I'm stuck at 3GB. If it was as easy as adding more RAM I would have done that already. I have a ton of stuff installed and configured the way I need and I'm hoping this fall or winter to get myself a new PC with Windows 10 64bit. That should solve my memory issues. For now though I was looking for ways to improve my situation since adding memory is not an option and I don't want to go through the hassle of re-installing Windows7 64bit and all my software just to do it all again this fall or winter.

Plus, regarding the Amazon issue with poor loading, I don't think that's a memory issue, so adding more memory won't improve that situation anyways.

I feel silly for not trying this sooner. I hopped around the Mozilla support forums a bit and found a suggestion that I disable the option to "Use Hardware Acceleration when available" under Preferences->Advanced and that completely removed the problem for me. Amazon loads as quickly as any other browser and it just took the tick of a single setting to get me back in top shape. Hope this works for you too!