Package: mozilla-firefox
Version: 1.0.4-2sarge5
Severity: normal
Hi,
I have been struggling against this bug for some time. I run firefox for
long periods, leaving lots of tabs open, possibly 2 or 3 windows. After
a certain amount of usage, firefox grows to use a fairly sizable
quantity of memory, maybe 500+M RSS and 300+M res according to top.
Around this point, I might decide to open a new tab (normally) or
possibly a new window, maybe just visit a website in an existing tab.
Firefox then becomes suddenly much more sluggish in responding.
Sometimes I can resolve this by closing the current/new tab/window, but
unless I save bookmarks and restart, it is almost guaranteed to happen
again soon.
I cannot always 'save' the situation as simply as this, as often any
action on window elements briefly (or not so briefly!) leads to a period
of high cpu activity...and nothing happening after this. In this case
the only solution is to close a window by using the window manager
button, since nothing else responds. Sometimes the entire window doesn't
redraw as there is some loop using lots of cpu inside firefox. I've
almost got to the stage of having a 'sacrificial' window for these
situations :|
During all of this, other applications operate fine, so I do not believe
this to be a system problem.
I have tried the session saver extension, but while I can see it trying
to recover, a lot of the automatically saved tabs often time-out in
loading, and I then seem unable to recover them another way - which
defeats the point somewhat. Perhaps I have missed something.
In any case, I'm now trying to run the 32-bit firefox in a chroot, to
see if this makes any difference.
While this is perhaps a rare bug, it is incredibly annoying when you
have lots of tabs unbookmarked, for them all to be lost and you need to
scour the browsing history. Perhaps opera is the next step, much as I
hate to admit it. Perhaps firefox 1.5 will have a session-saving
feature.
Thanks for your help,
--
Neil Pilgrim
(apologies for the wrapping below; resent using thunderbird after
reportbug couldn't send the mail)
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