Slow scroll in Mozilla

Collins Richey crichey at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 17:18:50 PST 2009


On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:

> Try running TOP to see if anything is soaking up CPU cycles.   I have found
> that Firefox will often spend 100% of the cpu doing 'something'.  I usually
> have to kill it and restart.

Yeah, I forgot. Iceweasel is very prone to this. On my latest sidux
install on a laptop (athlon variety), Iceweasel was eating the entire
machine. Not an uncommon behavior. After switching to Swiftfox with
all the same plugins (no extensions), the behavior went away.

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




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