Another thought - try disabling extensions -- turn them all off and see if FF continues to crash; then re-enable them one by one.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm using 3.5.3 on Gentoo, and haven't seen any problems (under light use, > anyway). A thought, though, you could kill -9 the process, and firefox may > launch the 'I quit unexpectedly' dialog and offer to give you a dump > report. Might be a good idea to file a bug - worst case, they close the > bug. Best case one of the developers looks into it for you. > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Andy Linde <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I haven't seen it on the windows version (XP or Vista), or the Mac >> version. My linux boxes are either cli-based or used for offline use, so I >> don't have much input there. >> >> What extensions are you using? What about your Flash/Java/etc versions? >> It sounds like it's across sites, but have you noticed a certain site that >> "sets it off"? How much RAM is FF using? >> >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:01 PM, James <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm using FF 3.5 on Mandriva 2009.1, but I suspect that the specific >>> versions and OS don't make too much difference. >>> >>> It seems that quite often, such as about once per day, Firefox goes >>> into "spin" mode where it just eats up as much CPU as it can get. On >>> a dual-processor machine, that means that "top" often shows firefox >>> using 150% CPU. Of course the whole machine drags when there's such a >>> CPU hog. >>> >>> I've tried kill off the FF tabs one by one to see if any of the loaded >>> web pages were the culprit. Nope, even if I kill off all the tabs, >>> firefox still spins and eats the CPU. >>> >>> Has anyone else noticed this unfortunate behaviour? It's not new with >>> 3.5; I know it also happened with 3.1. But if it happens so often, why >>> hasn't Mozilla see it (and fixed it?) Otherwise, it's a great >>> browser. >>> >>> Jim >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > > Daniel > -- Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
