Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@xxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:20:09 -0700

On 06/28/2010 07:30 AM, Tim Van Dyne wrote:

  >> It seems firefox gets worse every
release.

  >> 

  Ya ever stop to wonder if it's simply the package on your own
system? Because I just rolled out the latest Firefox to 226 Fedora
systems over the weekend and they all work like a charm.

  I do know that Firefox *sometimes* jacks up
royally if you update it  via rpm/yum and don't restart X11 at least..... Every time it
happens to me I'm troubleshooting up a storm until I realize someone
ran a horde of updates w/o rebooting.

  In your case though, ya might try
reinstalling the package before ya say the Internet is down if ya know
what I mean.  Or at least say "Hey, *my* Firefox is screwing up and I
don't know why".

It's not "my" Firefox that has problems, it's Firefox that has issues. 
It doesn't render pages correctly, it crashes often, particularly on
pages that have flash, and it consumes huge amounts of memory and cpu. 
Yesterday top showed Firefox using 93% cpu and 45% memory. I have to
kill it and restart it often because it starts to respond very slowly
even on an idle system.  There are times when I'm downloading files via
Firefox where Firefox will lockup completely for several seconds at the
end of the download.  Most of these issues that have existed in Firefox
for years.  These problems exist on all my Fedora systems on which I
run Firefox, not just one system.  Just because it "works like a charm"
for you doesn't mean a lot.

Paolo

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