mozilla is being a pig

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Wed May 10 14:07:40 UTC 2006


On 5/9/06, Dan <grinnz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> >
> In extras. :)
> -Dan

thanks, that answers one of my two questions.

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