mozilla is being a pig

Dan grinnz at gmail.com
Wed May 10 05:08:54 UTC 2006


Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 5/9/06, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5/9/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Old habits die hard, and my wife insists on using Mozilla even though
>> > firefox is installed.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, her mozilla, when left running for a few days, starts
>> > to bring the system to its knees.  Simply moving the mouse cursor
>> > anywhere causes cpu usage to spike, window redraw takes seconds,
>> > occasionally the mouse will even freeze in place for a second at a
>> > time.  Its just horrible. What makes no sense to me is that looking at
>> > the mozilla-bin process, its not using that much memory (no more than
>> > firefox), and if the system is left 'idle', CPU usage isn't even high.
>> >  As soon as mozilla is killed, performance immediately returns to
>> > normal.
>> >
>> > I thought it might be extensions, however she's only using adblock,
>> > and its the same version of adblock as i use in firefox (which doesn't
>> > exhibit this problem).  This is FC4-x86, fully up to date via yum.
>> >
>> > Anyone else seen this problem, or have any troubleshooting ideas?
>> >
>> Upgrade to seamonkey.
>
> Is this a known bug that is fixed in seamonkey?
> Are there FC RPMs for seamonkey?
>
>
> -- 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> L. Friedman                                    netllama at gmail.com
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>
In extras. :)
-Dan




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