On Tuesday 10 November 2009 18:40:25 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > fedora-kde mailing list > fedora-kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org > That's strange. I use it on both FC11 and FC12 x86_64. Current build is 4.0.227.0. It can even show Google Wave and is usable :-) Martin Kho
