On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 10:12 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
Swap is overrated. These days we have sufficient RAM to keep the OS
You're suggesting that it's OK to let the system kill off critical
processes?? That's a bit
On 6 March 2012 11:38, Phill Coxon phi...@xtra.co.nz wrote:
Is Firefox getting more bloated, slower, buggy and leaking memory
everywhere?
Actually, if you've been following since Firefox 5, they've been
progressively shrinking their memory footprint.
I've seen clean installs running with only
On 6 March 2012 12:36, Adrian Mageanu adrian.mage...@totalimex.com wrote:
Yes, disk I/O mostly due to furious swap when available RAM is exceeded,
and then there is the 100% of every available CPU, that's when keyboard
and mouse get locked and the fans screm mad.
Be careful you've not done the
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 March 2012 12:36, Adrian Mageanu adrian.mage...@totalimex.com wrote:
Yes, disk I/O mostly due to furious swap when available RAM is exceeded,
and then there is the 100% of every available CPU, that's when keyboard
Is Firefox getting more bloated, slower, buggy and leaking memory
everywhere?
Maybe it's just the plugins I use but I'm getting really tired of it.
Frequently my desktop is locking up completely with disk io so badly
that the desktop and mouse starts locking up for 30-60 seconds at a
time.
On 06/03/12 11:47, yuri wrote:
I use Chrome (not Chromium) and it just works.
Unless your religion/ideology forbids it, I would use Chrome rather
than Chromium for the proprietary bits that make some sites work
better (I won't mention the 'F' word).
Hmmm.
That explains a few things.
As a
On 06/03/12 11:55, Adrian Mageanu wrote:
Same here, but I think it's more about bad programming practices when
building add-ons than the browser itself. When running without any
add-ons Firefox is really speedy and stable.
So you're getting the massive disk IO / everything locks up issue as
On 06/03/12 12:05, Phill Coxon wrote:
As a diehard Firefox fan I'm so ignorant about chromium / chrome that I
didn't know there was a difference.
There isn't much difference.
I wish I could use Chrome but things like the Web Developer Toolbar seem
to be a nightmare on Chrome - all options
On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 11:38 +1300, Phill Coxon wrote:
Is Firefox getting more bloated, slower, buggy and leaking memory
everywhere?
Maybe it's just the plugins I use but I'm getting really tired of it.
Frequently my desktop is locking up completely with disk io so badly
that the
On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 12:08 +1300, Phill Coxon wrote:
On 06/03/12 11:55, Adrian Mageanu wrote:
Same here, but I think it's more about bad programming practices when
building add-ons than the browser itself. When running without any
add-ons Firefox is really speedy and stable.
So you're
On 06/03/12 11:38, Phill Coxon wrote:
Is Firefox getting more bloated, slower, buggy and leaking memory
everywhere?
Maybe it's just the plugins I use but I'm getting really tired of
it. Frequently my desktop is locking up completely with disk io so
badly that the desktop and mouse starts
On 06/03/12 13:03, Helmut Walle wrote:
In my experience it's almost always the Flashplayer plugin causing the
symptoms described by you (but obviously others could cause trouble,
too - YMMV etc.). Firefox itself appears to be fine. (and I only have
1 GiB RAM)
I think you've nailed it. It
On 06/03/12 12:09, Hadley Rich wrote:
There isn't much difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differences_from_Google_Chrome
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On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nzwrote:
On a slightly side note. Is LMDE really this cr@p?? I thought I should
move on from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS but I'm bitterly regretting it. Started
with squeeze, but it wouldn't even recognise my nvidia card as such, nor
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:09:51 +1300, Phill Coxon wrote:
I think you've nailed it. It almost always happens when I've left a
tab open with a flash video player or some other sort of flash.
Firefox will spend too much time saving to browser cache for the
go back to previous pages. If you add
On Tue 06 Mar 2012 14:09:51 NZDT +1300, Phill Coxon wrote:
I think you've nailed it. It almost always happens when I've left a
tab open with a flash video player or some other sort of flash.
Grrr.
Well it's your own fault for not installing the flashblock add-on. Together
with
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