linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Firefox problem

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Firefox problem

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 14:43, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

> 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
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