Firefox slooooooow down

[Kooldino]

I've been running firefox .8 for over a month now on my work machine.

If I let the PC sit overnight with Firefox open, when I come back, the machine is very laggy. When I restore firebird from the taskbar, it takes a long time to draw, and switcing between tabs/scrolling takes a good minute.

Am I alone in this?

[Wombat]

No, that's the normal behavior. Firefox moves itself into the swap space. I think you can tweak that, but I'll have to dig around.

[UtwigMU]

IIRC this is a reported bug, do a search on mozillazine.org forums and bugzilla and check release notes for 0.8 or 0.9

[leech]

Anyone else notice that with Firefox's new download manager is borked? At least on my computer (running at 3.06ghz 533FSB, 512MB of ram, Original Retail Parhelia 128... ) it runs SLOW. It makes my mouse choppy and everything else unresponsive until I close it or minimize it.... making the window smaller helps, but if it's open, chop chop chop.... it was this way in 0.8, so I installed the little extension that makes the downloads go in a little spot above the status bar at the bottom of the window.... but now in 0.9, it won't install...

Leech

[Ribbit]

@Leech: Perhaps another stupid bug/behaviour in the Parhelia drivers? (This is on Linux, right?) I've got Firefox 0.8 on a P2-300 laptop, 192MB mem, 2MB Neomagic video, and it's just fine even with a couple of downloads going at once. Choppy mouse suggests either X server/driver issues or something using obscene amounts of CPU. I'd guess the former.

@Kooldino: I'm sure Wombat's right, but I've just done a bit of digging and can't find the setting to change.

[leech]

Nope, this is in Windows, I run Galeon in linux. Could try Firefox in linux and see if it's there as well.

It does it on the Extensions screen as well. I almost tend to think it's due to whatever picture it displays as the background, but I could be wrong... It makes the mouse movement jerky...

Leech