Comments on: Fixing Firefox performance and lock-ups on Linux http://nicklothian.com/blog/2009/05/05/fixing-firefox-performance-and-lock-ups-on-linux/ My Blog, Take 4 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:44:57 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Doug http://nicklothian.com/blog/2009/05/05/fixing-firefox-performance-and-lock-ups-on-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-652 Doug Mon, 18 May 2009 04:36:23 +0000 http://nicklothian.com/blog/?p=373#comment-652 Hey Bad, this is really good and interesting info. Thanks! I've put in that new key and for 3 or 4 days now the annoying hangs (Ubuntu 9.04+FF3.0.10) have pretty much stopped. The (much shorter) hangs I'm getting now seem to be correlated with either news.google.com (refresh every 15min) or cbssports.com (lots of pushing and shoving during game time, esp. in the Game Center mode). When those sites are active in other tabs, and I scroll a long page in a third tab (esp. one with images), it starts to stumble. Could be the same problem or maybe it's the onboard graphics (128MB) getting jammed. Anyway, much better now. FF should make this no-sync mode easier to turn on, or detect ext3 fs and turn it on automagically. I'll report back in another week or two. Hey Bad, this is really good and interesting info. Thanks!

I’ve put in that new key and for 3 or 4 days now the annoying hangs (Ubuntu 9.04+FF3.0.10) have pretty much stopped. The (much shorter) hangs I’m getting now seem to be correlated with either news.google.com (refresh every 15min) or cbssports.com (lots of pushing and shoving during game time, esp. in the Game Center mode). When those sites are active in other tabs, and I scroll a long page in a third tab (esp. one with images), it starts to stumble. Could be the same problem or maybe it’s the onboard graphics (128MB) getting jammed.

Anyway, much better now. FF should make this no-sync mode easier to turn on, or detect ext3 fs and turn it on automagically. I’ll report back in another week or two.

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