Firefox disasters

[Martin Kho]

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
> 
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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