On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 18:26 +0100, Martin Kho wrote: > 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? FF certainly leaks memory. I keep an eye on it (Ctrl-Esc in KDE) and restart it before it gets out of hand, usually every 2 or 3 days. Of course it could be some add-on, but I can't be bothered doing the work to find out. > > 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. Unfortunately I've never managed to get Chromium to connect to any web site, even its own help page. I keep it up to date via the repo, but no version has ever worked for me. It just sits there with a spinning cursor and the message "Connecting ..." in the lower left corner. Fedora 11 fully updated, 64-bit. poc
