firefox is regularly dying

[Greg]

On 18/04/2009 7:29 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Greg wrote:
>
>    
>> >  On 18/04/2009 6:55 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>      
>>> >  >  On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Martin Sourada wrote:
>>> >  >
>>> >  >
>>>        
>>>>> >  >  >  >    On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 05:19 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>>>            
>>>> >  >  >
>>>>          
>>>>>> >  >  >  >  >    >   as of earlier this morning, firefox has simply aborted when i try
>>>>>> >  >  >  >  >    >   to do nothing more than follow a perfectly decent link.  it's
>>>>>> >  >  >  >  >    >   happened three times in the last 20 minutes.  is anyone else
>>>>>> >  >  >  >  >    >   seeing firefox just going away for no reason?
>>>>>> >  >  >  >  >    >
>>>>>> >  >  >  >  >    >   $ rpm -q firefox
>>>>>> >  >  >  >  >    >   firefox-3.1-0.11.beta3.fc11.x86_64
>>>>>> >  >  >  >  >    >   $
>>>>>>              
>>>>> >  >  >  >
>>>>> >  >  >  >    Looks like there is xulrunner at fault... Epiphany is regularly
>>>>> >  >  >  >    dying for me as well (though at first glance I do not see to
>>>>> >  >  >  >    experience it as often as you do). This is for the first time
>>>>> >  >  >  >    WebKitGTK is stabler than gecko for me... Actually the webkitgtk
>>>>> >  >  >  >    version in rawhide is rock stable... I suggest you try it out,
>>>>> >  >  >  >    midori is pretty interesting web-browser.
>>>>> >  >  >  >
>>>>> >  >  >  >    $ rpm -q xulrunner
>>>>> >  >  >  >    xulrunner-1.9.1-0.11.beta3.fc11.i586
>>>>>            
>>>> >  >  >
>>>>          
>>> >  >      i have effectively given up on firefox.  it used to be annoyingly
>>> >  >  slow, but annoyingly has lately turned into agonizingly, where FF
>>> >  >  regularly sucks up 100% of the CPU according to "top" (admittedly on a
>>> >  >  core 2 duo system).
>>> >  >
>>> >  >      in fact, at the moment, firefox is listed as using just over 118%
>>> >  >  of the CPU, whereas seamonkey is sitting down around 0.3%.  i used to
>>> >  >  really like firefox.  how did it turn into such an unmitigated
>>> >  >  disaster?
>>>        
>> >  what Extensions/Themes are you using in Firefox? cause i dont see
>> >  that
>>      
>    this is firefox-3.1-0.11.beta3.fc11.x86_64, running pretty much out
> of the box on a fresh install of f11 beta x86_64, with the 64-bit
> adobe flash player installed in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and that's
> all.
>
>    i just started FF and am not doing*anything*  with it -- it's just
> sitting there, and top reports that that single invocation of FF is
> using 103.3% CPU, while multiple invocations of seamonkey are taking
> up a total of 3.3%.
>
>    i'm not the only person who's reported on this -- firefox is just
> horribly, horribly slow.  i just switched virtual desktops to check on
> that one FF window, and what i get is a FF-sized window that still
> contains the content from the previous virtual desktop -- my system
> isn't even capable of refreshing the FF window, while seamonkey just
> zips right along.
>
>    others might not be seeing this, but at the moment, FF is unusable
> for me.
>
> rday
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i dont find firefox slow an i have a AMD6000+ Cpu, infact i find firefox 
faster in Fedora11 than i did in Fedora10 an i do have 2 extensions an a 
few themes in it. but whatever your comfortable with use it,