linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Firefox problem

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Firefox problem

I wasn't even aware Chrome was completed for Linux yet, this is
wonderful news!

Jusitn

J wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 14:43, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com
> <mailto:scottro%40nyc.rr.com>> wrote:
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> > I'm with the J's (Jeff and John). Opera is good for my needs. In
> > Fedora, and, I believe, Ubuntu, Google's chrome has also become quite
> > usable. Not, unfortunately, in CentOS, due to the fact that Chrome needs
> > some newer lib files, but I believe I saw a bug about it, and it will be
> > fixed.
>
> I haven't used Opera in ages... since it was 0.x, guess I'll have to
> look at that again. I haven't tried Chrome on linux yet. Meant to
> last night, but got hooked into watching several hours worth of Top
> Gear on the DVR and that basically ate up my night.
>
> I tried Chrome on windows yesterday though (WinXP SP3) at work and it
> was awesome... for the first couple hours. I did what I normally do,
> browse multiple sites in multiple tabs. Had two windows open, one for
> gmail, somethingawful, facebook and so on, and the other for python
> related stuff for a project I'm working on. After a couple, maybe
> three hours of this, both windows became horribly sluggish.
>
> On the one hand, the sluggishness in Chrome only extends to the active
> tab. If a tab became unresponsive during an action I could still
> switch to another tab and read that, however, that one too would
> become temporarily unresponsive if I tried to click any links there.
> On the other hand, the only way around this I found was to just kill
> off Chrome and restart. It didn't appear to be eating all the
> processor like FF3 does, and it wasn't killing memory either, at least
> those were looked at using the windows task manager, so I have no idea
> why they just started slowing down like that.
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff
> --
>
> Ogden Nash - "The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up,
> it's always a cat."
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