mozilla being a pig

[Michael Hipp]

It's been a while since I used Mozilla, but what you're describing I would 
categorize as "known behavior". The early versions of Firefox displayed the 
same problems, but the recent ones seem to have it fixed such that it happens 
only rarely almost not at all. Would have thought the commonality of codebase 
would have it fixed in Moz, what version are you using?

This wasn't just a problem on the Linux version of Moz, but the W32 version also.

I seriously doubt it can be fixed outside of the source code.

Michael

Net Llama! wrote:
> Anyone else still using Mozilla (not firefox)?  Old habits die hard, and 
> my wife insists on using Mozilla even though firefox is installed. 
> Unfortunately, her mozilla, when left running for a few days, starts to 
> bring the system to its knees.  Simply moving the mouse cursor causes 
> cpu usage to spike, window redraw takes seconds, occasionally the mouse 
> will even freeze in place for a second at a time.  Its just horrible. 
> What makes no sense to me is that looking at the mozilla-bin process, 
> its not using that much memory, and if the system is left 'idle' CPU 
> usage isn't even high.  As soon as mozilla is killed, performance 
> immediately returns to normal.
> 
> I thought it might be extensions, however she's only using adblock, and 
> its the same version of adblock as i use in firefox (which doesn't 
> exhibit this problem).
> 
> Anyone else seen this problem, or have any troubleshooting ideas?
> 
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