What the %$%@ is up with firefox

Chris Tyler chris at tylers.info
Mon Jun 28 16:34:43 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 09:20 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:

> 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.

The "particularly on pages that have flash" bit should give you a good
clue that this isn't an FF issue. Flash is an absolute pig, even
consuming cycles after the relevant tab is closed.

Blame the right software! Disable flash and see how many of these issues
clear up for you.

-Chris



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