Re: How I got Firefox 29 to not be slow.

2014-06-05 Thread David Beveridge
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 12:07:54PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: >> >> This seems to be epidemic in browsers. If you use chrome for a while >> you'll see it there too. > > I've had similar experiences. Having 50 or more open tabs in several tab

Re: How I got Firefox 29 to not be slow.

2014-06-05 Thread Marcel J.E. Mol
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 12:07:54PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 09:59:08 -0600 > linux guy wrote: > > > I ran a "ps aux | > > grep firefox" only to find a ghost firefox instance still running. I > > killed it. > > This seems to be epidemic in browsers. If you use chrome for a w

Re: How I got Firefox 29 to not be slow.

2014-06-05 Thread Liam Proven
On 5 June 2014 19:46, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > At least a little while ago, chrome was even worse when many tabs were > open, IIRC because it consumed a huge number of threads. Not sure if > that issue has been fixed recently, though. Chrome runs tabs in _processes_ not threads, AIUI. -- Lia

Re: How I got Firefox 29 to not be slow.

2014-06-05 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 12:07 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 09:59:08 -0600 > linux guy wrote: > > > I ran a "ps aux | > > grep firefox" only to find a ghost firefox instance still running. I > > killed it. > > This seems to be epidemic in browsers. If you use chrome for a while >

Re: How I got Firefox 29 to not be slow.

2014-06-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 09:59:08 -0600 linux guy wrote: > I ran a "ps aux | > grep firefox" only to find a ghost firefox instance still running. I > killed it. This seems to be epidemic in browsers. If you use chrome for a while you'll see it there too. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec

How I got Firefox 29 to not be slow.

2014-06-05 Thread linux guy
Hi people. I realize this isn't a Fedora issue per se but I thought that being a number of people running Fedora use FF, I'd share my experience here. I use FF as my main browser. My apologies to the Konqueror developers. I do a lot of online research and it isn't uncommon for me to have 10 FF