new tab page (Tiles) hogging bandwidth
When I open a new tab and I have Tiles activated (either enhanced or classic) my bandwidth maxes out. This 'maxing out' continues even after I close the offending tab and it persists for several minutes before going back to normal--or till I restart FFox. I'd been using the Tiles on this Linux machine for over a year before this problem appeared, probably after one of the recent updates.
I've tried troubleshooting it by stopping my other addons w/out help; I even tried killing the plugin container w/out help. The only way I can keep it from happening is to keep my new tab pages set to Basic--and not use Tiles at all.
The Tiles option is now useless to me since my other tabs won't load whenever I open a new tab and Tiles hogs all my bandwidth.
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Edit: After posting, I played around some more and deleted most of my tiled links in my new tab page. This seems to have fixed the problem, at least for now.
So...I guess I've learned that just by opening a new tab, each of the links that show up in the fifteen Tiles sucks up a load of bandwidth, even before you click on them--- some a LOT more than others!
It's irritating that my browser is crippled while my bandwidth continues to max out for several minutes even after I close the new tab.
The problem's still there but I know I can (hopefully) keep it from recurring by severely limiting and deleting the number of tiles I have activated.
Well, my rig is behaving, at least temporarily-- at least I've figured out a workaround if it acts up again.
Hopefully Mozilla is already working on a fix for this buggy "enhancement"!
Modified by etim
Does it has effect if you toggle browser.newtab.preload to false on the about:config page?
cor-el said
Does it has effect if you toggle browser.newtab.preload to false on the about:config page?
Thanks, cor-el, that sounds like it might work--I was wondering where in about:config something like this might be tweaked. But since I've pretty much purged my new tab page the problem's gone away. I'll consider this option if (when) this problem recurs once FFox eventually repopulates all those tiles with whatever it decides to fill 'em with.
Boy, I'd LOVE to have a manual explaining what the various about:config tweaks do in FFox--is there one available to us mortals?
Modified by etim
These can get you started;