Eben King wrote:
> Firefox crashed yesterday. It's become fat with age, and crashes and
> leaks too often for my taste. At least it restores its windows and tabs
> (sometimes even to the same desktop) they were on pre-crash.
>
> Anyhow, since then, it's been exceedingly slow. I'm talking minutes to
> load one tab and I have probably a hundred tabs. Every few minutes it
> throws up the "script has stopped responding" dialog. That box doesn't
> show up on XFCE's miniature desktop view, so I have to search for it if
> nothing's happened for a while. It spends hours trying to come up, then
> crashes partway through every time so far. I've brought down and up
> eth0, rebooted the router (the router's a DNS server), changed the DNS
> server in resolv.conf to the ISP ones, killed and relaunched FF, logged
> out of and into X, and rebooted the computer(!) to no avail. I thought
> it was a lack of free space either in {/var/log,/tmp} or in ~ but they
> have 6.9 GiB and 123 MiB free respectively. I suspect it was an update
> that FF didn't like. Is there a history of what was changed with
> apt-get? Is anyone else having this problem? What do you think's
> causing it? More importantly, what can I do about it?
>
You are seriously complaining about the browser being slow when you load
over 100 tabs into it?
Seriously?
Dare I ask why you need all that content loaded and waiting in RAM? What
would you have done before tabs? I think this borders on abusing a feature.
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