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To: steve harris who wrote (96867)	6/8/2017 8:46:14 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	1 Recommendation Recommended By steve harris Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110626

Steve, I run several instances of firefox pretty much always. My system is an I5 running ubuntu 16.10. My apts load from an SSD. When I leave the browsers running, often after several hours of no use they are very slow, sluggish. I'm guessing it something to do with caching. Anyway I have a kill function in my dropdown menu, I kill the process and th restart it. About 5 seconds and then the browser is again responsive. I have also found that there are some web pages that when left open tend to grow in memory use. My current system watson@xen2[2324]psf firefox watson 320 26.9 12.7 5301160 4208552 ? Sl Jun03 1817:24 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P watson watson 2339 1.3 1.9 1370536 628876 ? Sl Jun01 127:49 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P SEARCH2 watson 2522 4.0 6.3 3305124 2100808 ? Sl Jun01 382:20 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P Torrent_A watson 9934 4.8 3.9 2289948 1286060 ? Sl Jun07 49:42 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox watson 18375 34.5 7.6 4035616 2518016 ? Rl Jun02 3124:32 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P toms3d-5873 watson 18636 69.2 42.2 18851892 13903864 ? Rl Jun02 6263:10 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P home-8590 watson@xen2[2325]a psf ps -waux \| egrep !* \| grep -v grep \| grep -v "ps -waux"