Why is Firefox such a beast??
Beartooth
Beartooth at swva.net
Wed Sep 24 15:03:44 UTC 2008
I'm running Firefox under F8 and F9 on five different machines,
and it's a pain on every one of them, albeit in slightly different ways;
but the differences differ, too.
The first thing they have in common is that it takes forever to
launch -- when it does launch. The second is that it mostly doesn't. It
will try, and the little blue dots will circle for a while, and the
window list on the panel will show a mark for it -- for a while.
Sometimes one or another window will flash up and disappear, usually too
fast even to identify.
Then it will either all go away, or I'll get a lasting window
telling me it's already running but not responding. Sometimes after that
Firefox will actually launch, sometimes not.
If not, sometimes clicking the launcher again will bring it up;
sometimes it comes up double, or even with two different sessions -- and
shutting either will usually shut both. Other times it helps to do ps ax|
grep firefox, find one or several pids with question marks, kill them,
and start over.
It is consistently worse on some machines than others -- but not,
afaict, on F8 more than F9 or vice versa, nor with Ffx 2 more or less
than the other.
I try to keep it as nearly standardized as I can. The best way is
to add FEBE to any new install of Firefox, and then copy in a FEBE folder
by scp or sneakermail, and run a restore.
But I have one machine (a Dell Poweredge SC 1420, formerly the
server for a private list, and not yet fully wiped) which refuses
adamantly to read media or to do scp; so there are hardly any extensions
on its Ffx -- and it works better.
Are there extensions that Fedora will allow but not get along
with, or that don't get along with Fedora? Do I have too many? (The
latest FEBE restore tab listed 79 items.) Or what?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
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