Trembling Mouse
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
after it’s been running continuously for about a week, it seems to develop a
case of the DTs where the pointer rapidly oscillates between the arrow and
the pointing finger. When this happens, the browser becomes unresponsive.
To its credit, it hasn’t actually crashed or bogged down my system once
since I upgraded from 3.0.x. I just get fed up with it running slower and
slower, and kill and restart it. It’s good that it remembers all my tabs and
windows, and restores them.
And yes, I am using Adobe’s 64-bit Flash Player.
EMB
You could try using Firefox on a stable OS such as Windows 7 (where I do
not see the issue you are describing) rather then on Debian unstable.
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> You could try using Firefox on ... Windows 7 (where I do
> not see the issue you are describing) ...
How long do you leave it running at a time?
Nik Coughlin
news:heghj2$19d$1...@lust.ihug.co.nz...
Just out of curiousity, why do you leave your browser running all the time?
It only takes a second or two to start up again.
Richard
Yes, but not to open the 40-50 tabs I have sitting there which I will
get around to reading one day soon...
Why should I not be able to leave it running all the time. Yes, firefox
leaks memory like crazy and eventually screws up, but I shouldnt have to
adapt my usage to accomodate for long standing issues in the browser,
they should be fixed.
EMB
FF open for at least a couple of weeks so far. I use it much as you
mention elsewhere - lots of "I'll get round to looking at that" type
tabs open, and I just RDP onto it from wherever I happen to be when I
have a few free minutes to read.
On a related note, Thunderbird/Win whatever (XP, Vista and 7) is
significantly less than stable and crashes at random intervals (probably
related the the extensions I have installed).
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> The Windows 7 virtual box that lives under VMWare on my server has had
> FF open for at least a couple of weeks so far. I use it much as you
> mention elsewhere - lots of "I'll get round to looking at that" type
> tabs open, and I just RDP onto it from wherever I happen to be when I
> have a few free minutes to read.
>
> On a related note, Thunderbird/Win whatever (XP, Vista and 7) is
> significantly less than stable and crashes at random intervals (probably
> related the the extensions I have installed).
Quite the opposite of my experience, then. For me, Firefox/Iceweasel goes
funny after about a week, while Thunderbird/Icedove runs uncomplainingly for
weeks on end—never experienced a crash so far.
Like I said, it’s probably due to the 64-bit Adobe Flash Player.
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> Yes, firefox leaks memory like crazy and eventually screws up ...
Screwing up eventually yes, but I don’t think it leaks memory any more.
Nik Coughlin
news:hei5hd$kpd$1...@news.albasani.net...
> Nik Coughlin wrote:
>> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote in message
>> news:heghj2$19d$1...@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>>> In message <hegelu$dg$2...@aioe.org>, EMB wrote:
>>>
>>>> You could try using Firefox on ... Windows 7 (where I do
>>>> not see the issue you are describing) ...
>>>
>>> How long do you leave it running at a time?
>>
>> Just out of curiousity, why do you leave your browser running all the
>> time? It only takes a second or two to start up again.
>
> Yes, but not to open the 40-50 tabs I have sitting there which I will get
> around to reading one day soon...
40-50 tabs? Hahaha have you considered bookmarks?
> Why should I not be able to leave it running all the time. Yes, firefox
> leaks memory like crazy and eventually screws up, but I shouldnt have to
> adapt my usage to accomodate for long standing issues in the browser, they
> should be fixed.
Yeah, they should. No argument there.
Richard
Does on windows still. Not used it a greatdeal on linux since my ubuntu
machine is a piece of crap that barely runs anything graphical well.
Do you get the thing where images and pages will stop working till you
go work offline and then unselect it on linux often?
Richard
> "Richard" <ri...@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:hei5hd$kpd$1...@news.albasani.net...
>> Nik Coughlin wrote:
>>> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote in
>>> message news:heghj2$19d$1...@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>>>> In message <hegelu$dg$2...@aioe.org>, EMB wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You could try using Firefox on ... Windows 7 (where I do
>>>>> not see the issue you are describing) ...
>>>>
>>>> How long do you leave it running at a time?
>>>
>>> Just out of curiousity, why do you leave your browser running all the
>>> time? It only takes a second or two to start up again.
>>
>> Yes, but not to open the 40-50 tabs I have sitting there which I will
>> get around to reading one day soon...
>
> 40-50 tabs? Hahaha have you considered bookmarks?
Yes, but that doesnt help when pages are within search result frames
from google images etc very well. I just leave them there till I get
around to dealing with it.
Killing FF and opening it again will get them back
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> Do you get the thing where images and pages will stop working till you
> go work offline and then unselect it on linux often?
Never happened. The closest thing I can think if is sometimes if I reload a
YouTube page, it comes up blank but I can still hear the sound from the
movie. Reloading again brings it all back.