Firefox Running Slow in Linux

[Tom Horsley]

On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:15:04 -0700
Linuxguy123 wrote:

> Yesterday I was doing some online buying/investigating whereby I had 8+
> tabs open with a bunch of product images on each tab page.   Firefox
> outright stalled if I opened one too many.  It would become totally
> unresponsive for 20 to 60 seconds at times.

Yea, all my scrolling problems seem to be associated with multiple
tabs, especially if some tab has flash/java nonsense going on,
it will freeze up the whole UI for seconds at a time.

Why FF is working so hard to update dynamic contents on tabs that
aren't even visible is perhaps a question that ought to be asked :-).