Re: firefox slows system

2007-07-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 07:29:07AM -0700, Jason Dunsmore wrote: > On 6/18/07, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The problem lies with Firefox itself. No there is no fix, it has just > >grown to become a bloated peace of software. The problem is also very > >known in the world of BSD. > Th

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-23 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 6/18/07, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:14:35 -0500 "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian > Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting > ever more sluggish.

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread s. keeling
Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian > Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting > ever more sluggish. Others have suggested disabling pango if you've no need for foreign language support. "ex

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Thilo Six
Carl Fink wrote the following on 18.06.2007 19:19 > I've noticed that if I open multiple tabs in iceweasel, firefox-bin bloats > significantly, but xorg bloats ENORMOUSLY. I mean, it bloats from 200 megs > or so to 1.7 gigabytes of RAM footprint. Three times now, after very large > numbers of tab

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:14:35 -0500 "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian > Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting > ever more sluggish. > > I typically keep open several instances of Fi

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Shams Fantar
Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Russell L. Harris wrote: Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting ever more sluggish. I typically keep open several instances of Firefox/Iceweasel. The utility "top" show

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Carl Fink
I've noticed that if I open multiple tabs in iceweasel, firefox-bin bloats significantly, but xorg bloats ENORMOUSLY. I mean, it bloats from 200 megs or so to 1.7 gigabytes of RAM footprint. Three times now, after very large numbers of tabs were open in iceweasel (like 100), xorg has crashed. I

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:14:35 -0500 "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian > Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting > ever more sluggish. > > I typically keep open several instances of Fi

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
Liam O'Toole: > "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a fix for Firefox, or should I learn to like Epiphany? > > Try creating a fresh profile for yourself using the command 'firefox > -ProfileManager'. It may be that your current profile is to blame. Which is, of course, j

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Russell L. Harris wrote: Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting ever more sluggish. I typically keep open several instances of Firefox/Iceweasel. The utility "top" showed Firefox consuming most

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Shams Fantar
Russell L. Harris a écrit : Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting ever more sluggish. I typically keep open several instances of Firefox/Iceweasel. The utility "top" showed Firefox consuming m