Fred,
Thanks for the idea ..... increasing the swap file from 768 to 2GB did
the trick.
Page file topped out at 1.5 GB and then I was able to close the
offending geeky website and page filing plummeted to 453 MB.
I am not updating Firefox etc. while I am procrastinating re: all the
work that it will take to transition to a new computer that I purchased....
db
Fred Holmes wrote:
Why aren't you using Firefox 2.0.0.11 or whatever the latest is now? Maybe
this is a bug that has been fixed?
Try increasing the size of the system swap file by a whole lot. Maybe Firefox doesn't
know how to handle the situation of running out of swap file? (Maybe all programs don't?
After all, what does a program do when the loaded data exceeds the available
"memory"? Only a few text editors know how to page through a file and edit the
current sector, and splice a new sector into the file. They were back in the days of
CP/M and maybe early DOS.)
Get a 4GB (or even larger) flash drive and use all of it for the swap file.
Fred Holmes
At 04:10 PM 12/13/2007, db wrote:
I have a large number of web pages that I am working with via Firefox 1.5xx to do various
research and they get re-opened ("Restore Session") every time I reboot my XP
Pro computer.
Today I opened a blog page that ran away and crashed Firefox (from looking at Task
Manager/ Performance the problem is excessive RAM draw apparently) and now if I
restart and choose Restore Session it starts opening web pages Ok apparently until
it gets to that page and then & runs aways again before I can find that web
page's window and close it.
I don't want to "Start a new session" and sacrifice my collection of working
web pages in order to get around this problem.
Can anybody solution a solution path that will allow me to close that particular Firefox window without killing the Firefox application ?
db
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