Firefox disasters

[Martin Kho]

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/