On Tuesday 10 November 2009 17:51:18 Anne Wilson wrote: > For some time now I've been having problems with Firefox. It seemed to > give me some sort of runaway situation, where the cpu went sky high and > stayed there. That doesn't seem to happen any more, but now there seems > to be a memory leak. I had noticed things slowing down, but eventually I > got one of the freezes at a moment when konsole+top was in view. It was > clear that there was abnormal memory usage. In these situations it takes > about 2 minutes for anything to respond to a mouse-click, and I can't shut > firefox down with a mouse-click. The only thing I can do is use pkill to > get rid of it. That also takes a very long time, but the moment firefox > disappears everything is back to normal working speed. > > It's got so bad that I won't use firefox if I can possibly avoid it, but > there are some situations, like a shared googledoc, where I seem to have > no option. The site won't accept konqueror, and if I use the agent to > pretend that it's firefox konqueror crashes when I try to access the doc. > > I tried renaming ~/.mozilla, but it seemed that something was still a > problem - it was very slow to start up, then froze the system altogether. > > I'm getting desperate. I do need to be able to work on those shared > documents. If I delete firefox is there any alternative? Does anyone > successfully access googledocs in any other browser? > > Anne > Hi Anne, You can try Chromium (can eat babies :-)), but I can access and edit Google docs. Tom "spot" Callaway maintains it for Fedora. See [1] Maybe it's something you can use. Martin Kho [1] http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/
