On 05/25/2012 11:36 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:26:16AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> For quite a while I have had Thunderbird freeze up for a period of time. >> But more recently I have found the firefox is doing a similar thing. > ... >> While there are some features of Firefox I prefer over Chrome, I >> might simply switch to Chrome. > Lots of us have ditched Firefox for Chrome/Chromium because of the > issues you are having. Another anecdote--I had been using Firefox on > a Toshiba 12" netbook and it was /okay/, but then I had a reason to > try Chromium on it, and it feels MUCH more responsive on this slow > netbook, and the fan doesn't start up nearly as often. I've not gone > back to Firefox since... >
On 05/25/2012 02:24 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > Jerry Feldman wrote: >> Top (viewing CPU) will show firefox sitting >> right at the top. > One thing to try is open up the error console (under the Tools menu) and > look if a poorly coded site is perpetually trying to do something that > is failing. I see this pretty often. If you do, NoScript can mitigate > the impact by only allowing scripts to run on a small subset of sites. > > The other thing to check is Flash. If you have a vintage of FF that > still uses a separate process for Flash, you can find and kill that. Thanks guys. I do have Chrome installed (through the Google Fedora Repo). I did a side-by-side comparison a few years ago, and I decided to stick with Firefox, but when it starts to cause problems, it is time to change. -- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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