Has anyone seen a "lock up" occur on FC6 when running Firefox?

Richard England rlengland at verizon.net
Tue Jan 9 06:07:29 UTC 2007


Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 21:27 -0800, Richard England wrote:
>   
>> If I start firefox and use or let it sit idle, eventually the system 
>> will lock up.
>>     
>
> I haven't seen that, but I have seen my system get incredibly sluggish
> if Firefox has been running for quite some time (whether or not its
> idle).
>
>   
This can be anywhere from an hour or two to overnight.  Your symptom and 
mine start to sound like a memory leak, to me, but when I use top to 
watch memory utilization, it is high but not growing over time....

Mysteries, mysteries....

~~R




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