My system was stuck only once, when I forgot about firefox eating memory... and continued watching flash long streams... closing a window does not free memory, you need to close firefox completely before it will hit the swap... (in that case ff got like 3 Gigs, 1 RAM and 2 on swap) so you see, as was mentioned above, I torchered two ff's weakest parts :) flashblock and jsblock are really good additions.
Greg 2008/11/7 Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 >
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