This is strange: I thought I already updated qutebrowser, but it still shows up as version v0.4.0. I'm using pacaur to keep it up to date; maybe this is a bad idea? I'll try updating again and see what happens.
qutebrowser v0.4.0 Git commit: v0.4.0-220-g55efd13 (2015-10-04 18:33:37 +0200) CPython: 3.5.0 Qt: 5.5.0, runtime: 5.5.1 PyQt: 5.5 Style: QFusionStyle Desktop: None sip: 4.16.9 colorlog: no colorama: no pypeg2: 2.15 jinja2: 2.8 pygments: 2.0.2 yaml: 3.11 Webkit: 538.1 Harfbuzz: old SSL: OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015 Frozen: False Platform: Linux-4.2.3-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch, 64bit On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Florian Bruhin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey, > > * Abraham Baker <[email protected]> [2015-10-22 22:55:08 -0500]: > > Today I was composing an email in Gmail when the browser slowed to the > > point of being barely useable. I took a screenshot of htop (username > > redacted): > > > > > > I closed qutebrowser and killed the remaining processes using htop, and now > > qutebrowser is working at full speed again (though the swap hasn't fully > > emptied yet). > > > > I'm using qutebrowser-git on Arch, and I updated recently (though I didn't > > see qutebrowser in the list of updates on the last update). > > > > Is there anything in a recent update or something I might be inadvertently > > doing that would cause this to happen? > > Those kind of things are typically bugs in QtWebKit, the underlying > rendering engine - not in qutebrowser itself. What Qt version are you > using? (See :open qute:version). > > There was an issue regarding extreme memory consumption fixed with > Qt 5.4.2 - so if you're on that or something newer, I have no idea how > this happened. > > I'm sorry I can't help you much - things hopefully will get a lot > better in the future with the QtWebEngine/Chromium backend: > > https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/issues/666 > > Florian > > -- > http://www.the-compiler.org | [email protected] (Mail/XMPP) > GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | http://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc > I love long mails! | http://email.is-not-s.ms/
