Is this any better with Iceweasel 3.0?
* Shams Fantar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> Davide Prina wrote:
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> >
> > you can solve your problems with nice!
> >
> > If you don't know nice, then see
> > $ man nice
> >
> > There are two possible solution:
> >
> > 1) modify the iceweasel bash script:
> >
> > - edit /usr/lib/iceweasel/iceweasel as root
> > - go to end of file
> > - change line
> > exec_verbose ${MOZ_PROGRAM} "$@"
> > with
> > exec_verbose nice -n 5 ${MOZ_PROGRAM} "$@"
> >
> > Note: if you upgrade Iceweasel you need to apply this patch again
> >
> > 2) modify all iceweasel icon and menu entry adding
> > nice -5 to the program command
> >
> > Note: to edit menu probably you need to install a program like
> > alacarte
> >
> > Select menu entry or icon, click right mouse button and select
> > propriety
> >
> > In the edit box "command" add "nice -n 5 " at start
> >
> >
> > You can test it starting iceweasel in a shell script (you must close all
> > iceweals windows previously):
> > $ nice -n 5 iceweasel &
> >
> > Ciao
> > Davide
> >
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> I'm testing your first solution.
>
> Take note, I'm now under lenny/sid (even if the problem is still there)
> and I have today a lot of updates to do (700 MB of updating).
>
> I will inform you when I will have done the updates and when I will wait
> for few days to see if Icewasel still slows down the computer even if I
> find that the computer slows down less than before but I believe that
> there are other softwares that slow down the computer (like liferea,
> icedove..) and I'm going to look for a solution for these softwares or
> I'm going to try the suggested solution (the first)
>
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