On 08/16/2009 07:40 PM, M Daniel R M wrote:
firefox: Here the problem is very very annoying, I've run firefox before
with many other Linux flavours and never..., never got to this status of
inability; once you've got about six tabs opened on the same frame
window, firefox gets close to hang, and you become unable to manage it
anymore, unless you have an infinite patience. Doing "top" from a CLI
shows a %CPU _over_ 100%, amazing!. At the end, you'll have to kill the
process from console.
I don't know, either, why firefox gets to this status; preferences are
as usual, etc. Maybe the problem roots from the flags when compiling,
but I haven't received any message from the system, IIRC... Is there any
flag wrong on my system?
I remember Firefox was biting me with this too at some time. The
solution for me was to go to Edit->Preferences, and in the "Security"
tab uncheck the "Block reported attack sites" and "Block reported web
forgeries" checkboxes. The issue was that those features use sqlite to
update internal databases of thousands of "malware" sites, and updates
to these lists were bringing my CPU to its knees.
So try that and see if it helps.
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
Btw, if you're on a Core2 and a recent GCC, you might want to change
that to "-march=core2" or "-march=native".
