gmail + firefox woes

[Collins Richey]

On 6/10/05, Net Llama! <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm hoping that someone else ran into this and figured out what was
> wrong and how to fix it.
> 
> About 2 weeks ago, for no apparent reason, gmail started to do evil
> things to firefox on my FC3 box.  Basically what happens is that very
> gradually over time, typing any email in gmail starts to peg the CPU to
> the extent that the actual display of each letter that I type is
> delayed.  At first the delay is barely noticable, but grows worse over
> time to the point where I'm lucky if i'm getting 1 letter every 3
> seconds to show up in real time.  The only thing that seems to fix it is
> shutting down firefox and starting it up again.
> 
> I'm using the FC3 firefox RPM (which i'm semi-suspecting might be half
> the problem), but I've been using the FC3 firefox RPM for over two
> months now, and this problem starts about 2 weeks ago for no apparent
> reason.
> 
> Its starting to drive me mad.  Hopefully someone has a suggestion on
> what is wrong.
> 

No problems here, but then I'm on CentOS4 and using the REHL4/CentOS4
firefox rpms (firefox-1.0.4-1.4.1.centos4). You might want to try the
REHL4 rpm, since many things REHL4/FC3 are compatible.

HTH,

-- 
 Collins
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