firefox-pig (?)

Jorge Almeida jjalmeida at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 10:19:15 PST 2007





On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 07:36 +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>> According to top, firefox-bin is eating 75% cpu and 12% mem. I have just
>> one firefox window open, on Gmail, which is about the only thing I use
>> Firefox for. (I would have got rid of it altogether if Gmail would play
>> ball with Konqueror.)
>
> My understanding is that firefox release 3 (in beta) directly addresses
> this issue. It seems to be a related to gmail's use of AJAX-type code.
> In fact, I think release 3 uses gmail as an informal benchmark to see
> that 'improvements' do something.
>
>
OK, thanks for the input. I guess I'll be using firefox less. Until
release 3 is stable, at least.

-- 
Jorge Almeida



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