[Discuss] Mozilla freeze ups

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 05/25/2012 11:36 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:26:16AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> For quite a while I have had Thunderbird freeze up for a period of time.
>> But more recently I have found the firefox is doing a similar thing.
> ...
>> While there are some features of Firefox I prefer over Chrome, I
>> might simply switch to Chrome.
> Lots of us have ditched Firefox for Chrome/Chromium because of the
> issues you are having.  Another anecdote--I had been using Firefox on
> a Toshiba 12" netbook and it was /okay/, but then I had a reason to
> try Chromium on it, and it feels MUCH more responsive on this slow
> netbook, and the fan doesn't start up nearly as often.  I've not gone
> back to Firefox since...
>

On 05/25/2012 02:24 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> Top (viewing CPU) will show firefox sitting
>> right at the top.
> One thing to try is open up the error console (under the Tools menu) and
> look if a poorly coded site is perpetually trying to do something that
> is failing. I see this pretty often. If you do, NoScript can mitigate
> the impact by only allowing scripts to run on a small subset of sites.
>
> The other thing to check is Flash. If you have a vintage of FF that
> still uses a separate process for Flash, you can find and kill that.
Thanks guys. I do have Chrome installed (through the Google Fedora
Repo). I did a side-by-side comparison a few years ago, and I decided to
stick with Firefox, but when it starts to cause problems, it is time to
change.

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