On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:16:26 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: > >> I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting >> unusable. > > What version of Iceweasel? > > Seems that 3.5.x are getting better in preventing that "leaks" and also > are a bit more resource-wise. > >> I have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a >> 3.0GHz C2D with a (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or >> xulrunner-stub) have memory leaks, and after a couple of days, it eats >> up a significant amount (10-30%) of memory. The work box has 3GB and the >> home box has 4GB. It also eats up a significant amount of CPU. > > Javascript and flash can also make you browser to jump in resources > consumption... > >> This morning, after idling all weekend, iceweasel on my work system was >> chewing up between 70 and 100% of my cpus, and scrolling pages were >> hesitating for several seconds. >> >> So what do others use? Vimperator inside iceweasel !
When firefox 4.0 arrives (there is iceweasel 4 beta available for testing in http://glandium.org/blog/?p=1032), then only one tag will hang (or it they promisses) Vimperator Rocks! :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=jkisr68flj+4aksglp6j=wyvzkgw2zarl-...@mail.gmail.com
