gmail + firefox woes

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 10 June 2005 11:04 pm, Net Llama! 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.

Not a solution but a 'me too'.   I think Firefox has some big problems.

I'm using 1.0.4 straight from mozilla.org and for normal browsing it is fine.  
(Don't use it for email)

But there are time when I want to download a lot of images from a particular 
site and after about 40 images Firefox generally just hangs in a loop.  If I 
kill it and start over, it works fine again.  This might be related to your 
problem in that maybe there's a memory leak or some other similar problem 
which shows up after opening a lot of different windows.

The problem is definitely repeatable.