mozilla is being a pig

[Robin Laing]

Lonni J Friedman 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?
> 
> -- 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> L. Friedman                                    netllama at gmail.com
> LlamaLand                       http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
> 

Memory leak issues are known but not being fixed fast enough it seems.

I came across this but I don't know if it works with Mozilla or seamonkey.

Leak Monitor Extension
http://dbaron.org/mozilla/leak-monitor/

At least this would help improve Mozilla development.
-- 
Robin Laing