What the %$%@ is up with firefox

[Paolo Galtieri]

On 06/28/2010 09:34 AM, Chris Tyler wrote:
> 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
>
>    
Yes, flash on Linux has issues, but those issues don't seem to affect 
Chrome as much.  I don't have Chrome suddenly go away while I'm perusing 
some website as often happens with Firefox.  But even when I'm not 
visiting sites that use flash FF still consumes a lot of memory. At 
least once a day I have to stop and restart FF because it stops 
rendering pages correctly or refuses to render a page.

Paolo