Re: firefox chokes

From: CWO4 Dave Mann (misterfixit_at_loveable.com)
Date: 10/02/05 

Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 19:11:57 -0500

On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 19:02:10 -0500, Jim Strathmeyer wrote:

> I'm running Gentoo on a 3mhz laptop with a gig of RAM, and sometimes
> Firefox literally chokes the system. It's CPU usage goes to 99.5% and
> other applications stop responding. This usally happens when I have a
> few tabs open, but it appears to happen often. I imagine it's because of
> the amounts of ads (flash, java, javascript) on pages, could this be KDE's
> fault?
>
> I just want a smooth, fast web surfing experience!

If you have the various FF extensions intalled, try turning them off one
at a time one of them might be "stuck" Also, I noticed that some sites
simply will not respond if JS is turned off. FF appeared to freeze but
when I clicked on the allow JS icon on the bottom right the site loaded.

HTH,

Dave

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