$quoted_author = "Heracles" ; > > Everything pauses, but if she kills Firefox then there are no further > problems. I got her to move to Opera and the problem has gone away so I > guess the problem is in Firefox. > Not really sure why as it works fine on my machine using exactly the > same version - except that my machine is a 64 bit athalon and hers is a > 1.7GHz P4 style Celeron both running the 32 bit version of Feisty.
when you say "everything pauses" is it because CPU load spikes? i had that problem and there appears to be an issue with firefox and xorg. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/38131 using the suggested workaround fixed it for me: --- Proposed workaround: use Option "AccelMethod" "exa" in device section of your xorg.conf ---- cheers marty -- My Everest is not in Nepal, She's sleeping in the bedroom second right down the hall. Ed Hillary couldn't crack this nut, He'd be hiding in the lounge room with the rest of us. "My Everest" - Lazy Susan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
