Rasheed , Jul 22, Not System Explorer, but Process Hacker. Shouldn't make any difference if is is being monitored with PH or SE. Rasheed , Jul 23, You must log in or sign up to reply here.

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Namespaces Page Discussion. The Extension is also be able to "Forget closed tabs" and "Forget closed windows" and shows settings, timings and size.

SR is designed for the following use cases: 1. Crash recovery without losing state; 2. Quit and restart from the same browsing position either manually or automatically ; 3.

Upgrade Firefox or Extensions without losing state. For 1. This means that we need to write all the costly stuff, including DOM Session Storage which is currently what takes most of the disk space, iirc , forms, etc.

Are there plans on Mozillas side, to address this issues. You describe that a fix is not trivial but at the same time it sounds like there is no active work happening ot the moment.

I understand that with e10s being your main focus point, this may have to wait until after Firefox Also, the question is if most people actually need a full session restore or if they are satisfied with a URL restore for each tab.

For this the browser would only need to write whenever the URL of a tab is changed — which would result in much much less data.

My two year old system drive Samsung Pro has written 7. So making the very conservative assumption of a write endurance of TB the drive should be good for another 25 years at this rate.

Raw IO measurements will likely not indicate what is actually written to disk, to begin with, so your measurement is quite biased to the high side.

So, does a few MB more or less matter? Not really. I solved this by disabling the feature and using an add on that saves the sessions to Dropbox instead of my local ssd.

I like this idea, and use the AddOn called Session Manager to restore any browsing session, including crashed browsing sessions.

It also backs up a crash. I wonder if it uses a similar scanning protocol? Please note that my desktop SSD has a SandForce controller and I have just no idea whether iotop takes it compression in account or not.

So taken back to one then twenty four hour each, stats are as follow — Firefox tabs : 7. Focusing on a single process is OK but not cool unless taking the others in account.

For those of us using the most hackable main stream browser available, do our job and reduce its IO activity as we wish. Is there any way to only create a session restore when the browser is closed?

Without writing to your drive every x minutes? For a second I thought maybe everyone was crazy and some new undetected browser malware was in the wild because I see hardly any disk activity at all even with 15 tabs open,.

Then I remembered I run noscript along with ublockO. Thanks for investigating and publishing your findings.

Have added the tweaks and, so far, all working as before. I am using Session Manager addon. Browsers are the main piece of software we use today.

To make sure everything goes well they have to use that ressources. How do we turn off this SSD-killer on Chrome?

This guy found the problem in Chrome in Mozilla Firefox 3. Search Support Search. Home Support Forums Firefox My firefox browser is much slower Learn More.

Chosen solution Have you enabled multi-process? Let me know if you still have issues after performing these changes. If none of these steps help, consider refreshing Firefox based on the below instructions: The Refresh feature called "Reset" in older Firefox versions can fix many issues by restoring Firefox to its factory default state while saving your bookmarks, history, passwords, cookies, and other essential information.

To Refresh Firefox: Open the Troubleshooting Information page using one of these methods: Click the menu button , click help and select Troubleshooting Information.