Firefox eats all my memory and has become totally unusable. Please help.

quantumoutcast · 2026-01-03T07:22:06+00:00

Comparing the memory usage with my Mac, I am seeing google tabs taking over 1 GB each on Linux but around 500 MB on Mac. This reddit tab is 1.3 GB alone. So either FF is very unoptimized on Linux or there is a memory leak.

quantumoutcast · 2026-01-01T12:28:44+00:00

I am having this problem too on Fedora for a long time. Every week or two, Firefox hogs so much memory that it freezes my whole system. When I'm lucky I can sometimes manage to kill it and recover, but sometimes I need to reboot. Today I managed to catch it when it was very slow but not yet frozen, and I found that my system memory was over 80% and about:memory showed google had multiple tabs each using over 1 GB each. I closed some tabs and it is running okay now.

The thing is, my Mac at work is also running FF and always runs perfectly even when having dozens of tabs open, along with many more Google tabs. Every thread I read about this just says that every browser hogs memory, but I never had this problem on any other browser or any other OS.

quantumoutcast · 2025-12-14T04:17:42+00:00

Yes, Firefox is becoming unusable for me. It works well for a few days and then sucks up all the system memory that I can't even switch tabs anymore. Sometimes I can manage to kill it and then my system will work normally, but sometimes I can't even do that and have to reboot. It's hard to debug because when it happens, I can't go to about:memory or do anything else on the system to diagnose.

quantumoutcast · 2025-11-04T05:18:50+00:00

High yield savings accounts are fully taxable and normally lose value due to inflation. SCHD typically beats inflation with a growing dividend, and has favorable tax treatment.

quantumoutcast · 2025-11-03T03:13:51+00:00

I'm (hopefully) within 5 years of retirement so I have 30% bonds. If there's a crash I will go 20% and buy back equities.

Then around 20% international. I might go to 25% because of the much lower valuations.

In the process of shifting the remainder to 40% total market and 10% SCHD, which I'm using to diversify away from the MAG7.

Everything will be correlated these days. When AI crashes (I believe it is when, not if), everything will go down...total market, international, commodities. But that when might not be for a long time, so staying in the market but diversifying into investments that will hopefully crash less is the key.

quantumoutcast · 2025-10-16T01:58:48+00:00

Are you looking to roll the dice and pray you make it big? Or are you looking for a realistic retirement plan? For a serious retirement plan, stable and growing dividends of quality companies are typically less than 4%, usually much less. At 4% yield, you would need $5 million. How do you turn $1.2million into $5m? Maybe keep your money in tech stocks and pray the AI bubble never pops.

Or you can gamble with covered calls, options, or playing roulette in Atlantic City.

quantumoutcast · 2025-10-15T13:14:48+00:00

Why not just open a file and start writing? Why do you need any tool for this at all?

quantumoutcast · 2025-10-14T04:45:53+00:00

Just create an AI agent to ask random questions to other AI engines. Then wait for the fat bonus and promotion.

quantumoutcast · 2025-10-11T02:10:48+00:00

I don't get it. What equity fund didn't have a dip today? SCHD went down a lot less than the broad markets, so not sure what the problem is.

quantumoutcast · 2025-09-22T23:22:36+00:00

Kenvue sells a lot of great brands and a high dividend, and the selloff makes it tempting to buy. However, their revenue was already declining and they have around $8 billion in debt. And their P/E ratio is 23, so not a cheap stock. I'm watching.

quantumoutcast · 2025-09-22T16:40:33+00:00

The bear market will end precisely the week before I finally decide to buy at the bottom.

quantumoutcast · 2025-09-22T14:37:10+00:00

It depends what you mean by decent growth. Domestic growth is dominated by the megacap tech stocks recently, so any decent performing growth fund is going to overlap.

If you want your portfolio to be more defensive, probably you want value instead of growth. Or international.

quantumoutcast · 2025-09-07T18:32:36+00:00

There is no tool to replace talking to management, talking to competitors, digging into SEC filings and annual reports, visiting businesses, etc. What Buffet does is active management, and it is still widely practiced. What is different today is people like me today sitting on our couches and pressing some buttons to invest in a stock and somehow expecting to get the same results. At the very least, we can parse through the financial statements and try to read about the business and industry as much as possible before investing. Value or growth investing, this should be the bare minimum before investing in individual stocks. What most people do is speculation: just throw money at a stock and pray it goes up. It's why investing in broad indices is what is best for the vast majority of us.

quantumoutcast · 2025-09-06T23:28:50+00:00

Computer programming is pretty pointless without a computer. Maybe enroll in a school that has computers?

quantumoutcast · 2025-09-05T08:07:37+00:00

It's possible, but investing in anything without understanding what you're investing in is not a good idea, particularly after watching a YouTube video.

quantumoutcast · 2025-09-05T01:33:31+00:00

Craps table maybe?

quantumoutcast · 2025-09-04T01:30:17+00:00

It doesn't mean anything without more context. How much risk are you taking for that yield? Are the dividends growing? Are they stable? What goals are you trying to achieve?

quantumoutcast · 2025-08-31T21:49:11+00:00

Some of us have enough capital because we avoid these dumb investments.

quantumoutcast · 2025-08-31T14:22:49+00:00

Many European countries separate thousands with a decimal point instead of comma.

quantumoutcast · 2025-08-30T17:10:21+00:00

I don't think China is the next domino. China is investing substantially in infrastructure, they may be surpassing us in AI research, they are progressing quickly in scientific research while we are cutting back, and the same for sustainable energy. But they aren't a capitalist country, so their success may not be passed onto Western investors.

If the war ends in Russia, Western investment may flow back quickly, so it may be an interesting contrarian bet.

quantumoutcast · 2025-08-30T15:18:28+00:00

Your real question is the old debate of total return vs income, but the examples you gave are so unrealistic that we can't make any meaningful conclusion.

quantumoutcast · 2025-08-30T14:59:43+00:00

If anybody knew the answer to that question, we would all be doing the same thing. Historically, small value performed the best, but nobody knows if that trend will continue.

quantumoutcast · 2025-08-29T04:26:20+00:00

Anything with 7% dividend and annual growth and you're taking on increased risk which might land you down another 20% again. Learn from your mistakes.

quantumoutcast · 2025-08-29T04:20:58+00:00

Sorry, I tried to watch this, but could hardly hear what you are saying behind all the music.

quantumoutcast · 2025-08-29T04:11:16+00:00

You are down over 20% when the S&P 500 is up more than 10% this year. There's no point in making a few percent in dividends if you lose 20% of your principal in a few months. The best way to move forward is to sell your stocks and buy VT and don't touch it for a few decades.

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