firefox-pig (?)

[Collins Richey]

On Dec 5, 2007 11:19 AM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
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> > 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.)
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> > 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.
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> OK, thanks for the input. I guess I'll be using firefox less. Until
> release 3 is stable, at least.
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I've been running the beta version for about 3 weeks, and only one
problem - a crash today after sitting idle since overnight.

No signs of unusual cpu/memory utilization, and all my plugins just
worked with no changes. I don't do extensions, but I understand these
have to be reworked.

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.