ubuntu 8.04 and firefox 3 woes

[der.hans]

Am 07. Nov, 2008 schwätzte jdawg so:

> I have notice more with v3, that I find my system "freezing" up, when a
> page doesn't load.
> Most of the time it is ok, but sometimes it becomes excruciatingly slow
> to click on any other app, or trying to cancel firefox.
> When firefox is eventually cancelled, the system goes back to normal.
>
> I am running firefox now using this command.
> nice -n +4 firefox, which seems to help.
>
> I wanted to know if anyone else has experience extreme slow-downs
> because of firefox 3.

Have you tried running it in safe mode to see if it's one of the addons
causing the problems?

If you're having crashes get the session-manager addon. It does a much
better job than the builtin stuff.

I pretty well only have problems with flash sites. Maybe whatever version
of gnash is available for Intrepid finally works. Haven't yet tried it.

ciao,

der.hans
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