* Helmut Grohne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Did you say you were running on not very powerful hardware? Opening 30 > > tabs is certainly going to put a strain on an older machine. > > Yes, but 30 tabs *should* consume a lot of cpu. I'd said nothing if it > just took very long. But firefox sometimes even fails to redraw within 5 > seconds *although* the cpu is idle. What prevents firefox from > redrawing? I could use a faster cpu, but this doesn't solve my problem, > as firefox sometimes refuses to use it. It's not like resources are > missing. Firefox just stops using them although it definitely has to do > the redraw. The same bahaviour could be achieved by putting sleep() > calls into the source. As I said it hangs within futex() this is > probably a locking problem.
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