mozilla is being a pig

[Kam Leo]

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

Upgrade to seamonkey.