firefox is regularly dying

Greg Samba30i at aim.com
Sat Apr 18 09:19:24 UTC 2009


On 18/04/2009 6:55 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Martin Sourada wrote:
>
>    
>> >  On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 05:19 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>      
>>> >  >  as of earlier this morning, firefox has simply aborted when i try
>>> >  >  to do nothing more than follow a perfectly decent link.  it's
>>> >  >  happened three times in the last 20 minutes.  is anyone else
>>> >  >  seeing firefox just going away for no reason?
>>> >  >
>>> >  >  $ rpm -q firefox
>>> >  >  firefox-3.1-0.11.beta3.fc11.x86_64
>>> >  >  $
>>>        
>> >  Looks like there is xulrunner at fault... Epiphany is regularly
>> >  dying for me as well (though at first glance I do not see to
>> >  experience it as often as you do). This is for the first time
>> >  WebKitGTK is stabler than gecko for me... Actually the webkitgtk
>> >  version in rawhide is rock stable... I suggest you try it out,
>> >  midori is pretty interesting web-browser.
>> >
>> >  $ rpm -q xulrunner
>> >  xulrunner-1.9.1-0.11.beta3.fc11.i586
>>      
>    i have effectively given up on firefox.  it used to be annoyingly
> slow, but annoyingly has lately turned into agonizingly, where FF
> regularly sucks up 100% of the CPU according to "top" (admittedly on a
> core 2 duo system).
>
>    in fact, at the moment, firefox is listed as using just over 118%
> of the CPU, whereas seamonkey is sitting down around 0.3%.  i used to
> really like firefox.  how did it turn into such an unmitigated
> disaster?
>
> rday
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what Extensions/Themes are you using in Firefox? cause i dont see that




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