gmail + firefox woes

[Collins Richey]

On 6/11/05, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> 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. 
> >
> > 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.  
> The problem is definitely repeatable.
> 

Sounds worth researching and reporting to mozilla.org. OTOH, CentOS
users are reporting some (apparently known) instances of memory leaks
on the 2.6 kernel. The reference were not related to browser
necessarily.

I don't run servers and don't leave my machine powered on for weeks on
end, so I've noticed nothing. I also don't download lots of images. I
do run gmail as my only mail interface, and I've had no problems.

-- 
 Collins
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