Re: firefox very slow since start of Feb

[Micha feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

Mladen Adamovic wrote:
> Ethan Aubin wrote:
> > Sometime in early February I apt got a new version of Firefox (I'm
> > guessing it was the upgrade to 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1), and since then the
> > browser is /dog slow/, sporadically taking tens of seconds to respond
> > to input.  Has anyone figured out this problem? 
> Perhaps you can better explain sporadically in your sentence?
> I mean on one computer I'm running Firefox 1.5.0 from mozilla.org  and 
> obviouslly it have problem when one open more tabs then one. Often when 
> I open 10 tabs it happen that I takes tens of seconds to respond. So, if 
> you have similar problem it is not because of Debian package probably 
> Firefox related problem.
Firefox has a serious memory leak issue, esspecially if you open more the one 
tab. Make sure that your hard disk is not thrashing due to swap usage.
I have to restart firefox every few hours due to this problem to cleanup memory.