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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Well that's it for me and Firefox. All the 3x versions on Ubuntu 9.10/Windows 7 are causing serious slowdowns system wide, but they're not even spiking ram or cpu...it's just..well I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, it stops when I get rid of Firefox. Now using Opera....smooooooth  |
I have Firefox 3.6 up under Ubuntu 9.10 and don't see that. The box running Ubuntu is old and slow (a Fujitsu Livebook P2110 circa 2001 with an 867mhz CPU, UDMA 4 HD, and a whopping 256MB of RAM. It came with WinXP Pro, which gave a good imitation of "death by thrashing" when used.) Xubuntu turtled on it. Ubuntu installed from the MinimalCD to get a bare-bones command line setup, then Xfce and other things added manually with apt-get is a lot peppier.
Firefox takes a while to load, but runs acceptably once up.
I'd look at what add-ons are installed. They tend to be culprits. (I had to uninstall the Brief RSS reader from FF under Ubuntu - memory use was steadily increasing when FF was not being used, and Brief's periodic checks for updates to feeds were apparently the cause.)
I have Opera installed here as well, but prefer Firefox.
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Dennis