Re: Is it just me [Firefox resouce drain]
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> Running updated wheezy
>
> Does any other firefox user see this phenomena:
>
> Running Firefox 7.0.1 When I navigate to this specific page I see
> really massive resources being pulled. It is listed it `top' as being
> Xorg, but it only happens when I run firefox and try to load this
> page:
I got a private response to this by someone running Iceweasel who said
they had no problem with that site...
I should be able to run both firefox and iceweasel right? So I thought
I might do some testing with Iceweasel.
I am having an issue where firefox 7.0.1 makes Xorg pull an ungodly
amount of resource on one particular web page.... so I thought I'd
install iceweasel and see if that would help me see if it is a local
problem or what. But now, when I try to start iceweasel, I get a
warning dialog that tells me
iceweasel is already running, but not responding and that I must
first close that instance in order to start iceweasel.
However,
ps wwaux|grep icew
shows no pid for iceweasel... how can it be running with no pid.
Or does icew do something sneaky with the firefox program?
I did see a message when I just now installed iceweasel:
[snipped from installe output]
[...]
Unpacking iceweasel (from .../iceweasel_7.0.1-4_i386.deb) ...
Adding 'diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.real by
iceweasel' Processing triggers for man-db ...
[...]
I do see several pids for firefox (wrapped for mail):
reader 12600 0.0 0.0 1892 500 ? S 14:52 \
0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/firefox
reader 12601 1.9 6.2 570888 129260 ? Sl \
14:52 6:54 /usr/bin/firefox
reader 12927 0.1 0.9 127424 19716 ? Sl \
15:01 0:31 /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container \
/home/reader/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni \
/usr/lib/firefox/omni.jar 12601 true plugin
Is one of those likely to be iceweasel impersonating firefox?
Anyway, can anyone guess what might be going on here?
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