I also gave Minefield a try... its VERY unstable but shows how Firefox devs are still focusing on speed.
I will give flashblock a try. Thanks for the tip On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Anton Xuereb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ye, the fsync problem shows especially when you are uncompressing > something...ff freezes until the disk operations are completed :/ > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Jean Azzopardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> The worst thing about Firefox 3 on Linux is the fsync problem with ext3 >> in my opinion. It makes Firefox nearly unusable when handling large >> files at the same time as browsing. That, and flash - although I've >> lately installed flashblock on my system, and I find it a godsend, that >> way I can see flash apps, only when I want to see them, not the otherway >> round. Your RAM and CPU will thank you for installing it, I can >> guarantee it. >> >> >> >> Iain wrote: >> > Gregory Smirnov wrote: >> > >> > <snip> >> > >> > >> >> One thing I hate is that on Linux, firefox would use all your memory >> >> and >> >> cache, if you kept it open for a while, and make your system unusable. >> >> The >> >> only way to free memory properly is to reboot. (sounds familiar? ;) >> >> >> > >> > No. >> > >> > FF had a tendency to gobble large chunks of RAM over a good period of >> > time, but simply restarting FF always clears that up. Never have to >> > reboot. >> > >> > Iain. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > MLUG-list mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MLUG-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
