gmail + firefox woes

[Net Llama!]

On 06/11/2005 06:51 AM, Bruce Marshall 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.  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.

The weird thing is, this only happens with my box at work.  I'm using 
the 'official' firefox tarball on my home FC3 box (instead of the RPM) 
and do not experience this problem at home.  I'll prolly give the 
tarball a try at work and see if that makes a difference.


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