Re: [ubuntu-uk] Can't move panels, oh, and why does Firefox crash so much?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/07/09 10:40, Paul Webster wrote: Also, does anyone else find that Firefox 3 0 11 freezes rather often? It is then hard to shut down, despite using the Force Quit button. It seems to quit, but when I try to restart it, it claims to be still running and a restart of the computer is said to be the solution. In fact it can be forced to shut down in System Monitor. I have had the freezing problem - and narrowed it down to being caused by pages using flash. The problem was there when I upgraded to 9.04, but seems to have gone away since I started using Kubuntu. the workaround for me was to never close a tab that had flash content in it if I didn't want Firefox to hang. I was always suspicious that it was a sound related problem as I could not get sound in flash (that broke for me in 8.10), but that seems to have magically fixed itself and perhaps due to my using Kubuntu. Unfortunately I haven't had time to dig into it more than that though. As for the 'hard to shut down' problem, when I experience that symptom I find that after a few minutes the Firefox process does quit. In my case it's because Firefox has eaten up a lot of RAM/Swap so I think that it (or the kernel) is freeing up that memory before the Firefox process actually exits. This is quite hard disk intensive so my hard drive indicator flashes continuously whilst this happens. Sometimes I get bored and 'kill' it. - -- Stephen O'Neill w: http://www.thefloatingfrog.co.uk/ e: sq...@thefloatingfrog.co.uk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpRnQ4ACgkQJ+Auntu1v4RndQCcCF9Zc52+JkOFq+BxGIT5eSlD Ca4An3aebJacDqRrkJXxiNDnJaHSZS+H =ibo2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Can't move panels, oh, and why does Firefox crash so much?
Paul Webster wrote: Also, does anyone else find that Firefox 3 0 11 freezes rather often? It is then hard to shut down, despite using the Force Quit button. It seems to quit, but when I try to restart it, it claims to be still running and a restart of the computer is said to be the solution. In fact it can be forced to shut down in System Monitor. How many bookmarks do you have, and do you find firefox freezes when you're organizing them? Since they moved to using SQLite for storing them (with the 3.n series), I've found performance to be very slow when dealing with large (over 10,000) numbers of bookmarks. John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Can't move panels, oh, and why does Firefox crash so much?
Hi How to put this tactfully: No one ever answered my question about why panels cannot, in fact, be dragged to new locations... (They can't on my screen, anyway). Also, does anyone else find that Firefox 3 0 11 freezes rather often? It is then hard to shut down, despite using the Force Quit button. It seems to quit, but when I try to restart it, it claims to be still running and a restart of the computer is said to be the solution. In fact it can be forced to shut down in System Monitor. Any thoughts on these two points? Paul Webster -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Can't move panels, oh, and why does Firefox crash so much?
Paul, Paul Webster wrote: How to put this tactfully: No one ever answered my question about why panels cannot, in fact, be dragged to new locations... (They can't on my screen, anyway). If you hold the Alt key down you can then click and drag the panels. Also, does anyone else find that Firefox 3 0 11 freezes rather often? It is then hard to shut down, despite using the Force Quit button. It seems to quit, but when I try to restart it, it claims to be still running and a restart of the computer is said to be the solution. In fact it can be forced to shut down in System Monitor. I've had this happen occasionally. I've always thought it was something to do with the flash plugin, but I've never really verified this. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Can't move panels, oh, and why does Firefox crash so much?
I am using 9.04 and also cannot drag the panels, although I do not really want to. As Alan Lord (news) said in his reply, you can right click, select Properties and choose the location on the screen. I am also using Firefox 3.0.11 and have not had the problems you describe. I currently have about 50 tabs open. I am using 64-bit Ubuntu 9.04, with 4 GB of RAM. I guess if your PC does not have a fast enough CPU or enough RAM, then it might seem like Firefox is freezing if too many tabs are open, as it cannot process the loading of web pages quick enough. I use Firefox on my Asus Eee PC, which is 1.6 GHz CPU and 1 GB RAM, and it is much slower than on my AMD64 PC. So maybe you just need to be a bit patient, and not have more than 5 tabs open at one time if your PC is old or slow. David King Paul Webster wrote: Hi How to put this tactfully: No one ever answered my question about why panels cannot, in fact, be dragged to new locations... (They can't on my screen, anyway). Also, does anyone else find that Firefox 3 0 11 freezes rather often? It is then hard to shut down, despite using the Force Quit button. It seems to quit, but when I try to restart it, it claims to be still running and a restart of the computer is said to be the solution. In fact it can be forced to shut down in System Monitor. Any thoughts on these two points? Paul Webster -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
