mozilla is being a pig

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 5/9/06, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/9/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Old habits die hard, and my wife insists on using Mozilla even though
> > firefox is installed.
> >
> > Unfortunately, her mozilla, when left running for a few days, starts
> > to bring the system to its knees.  Simply moving the mouse cursor
> > anywhere causes cpu usage to spike, window redraw takes seconds,
> > occasionally the mouse will even freeze in place for a second at a
> > time.  Its just horrible. What makes no sense to me is that looking at
> > the mozilla-bin process, its not using that much memory (no more than
> > firefox), and if the system is left 'idle', CPU usage isn't even high.
> >  As soon as mozilla is killed, performance immediately returns to
> > normal.
> >
> > I thought it might be extensions, however she's only using adblock,
> > and its the same version of adblock as i use in firefox (which doesn't
> > exhibit this problem).  This is FC4-x86, fully up to date via yum.
> >
> > Anyone else seen this problem, or have any troubleshooting ideas?
> >
> Upgrade to seamonkey.

Is this a known bug that is fixed in seamonkey?
Are there FC RPMs for seamonkey?


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