http://www.owenkellett.info/2005/08/21/firefox-memory-leak/ Technology news, baseball, track and field, and more! Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:15:57 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.owenkellett.info/2005/08/21/firefox-memory-leak/comment-page-1/#comment-67 owenkellett.info » Blog Archive » Enlightenment on Ubuntu Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:01:51 +0000 http://www.owenkellett.info/2005/08/21/firefox-memory-leak/#comment-67 [...] In any case, I still have not taken the plunge and installed Vector, but there was one interesting discussion in the above mentioned review that caused me to take a parallel investigative leap. Up until now, I have relied on both KDE and GNOME to serve my Linux desktop environment needs. For the past couple of years, I used KDE on Mandrake up until just recently when I switched to GNOME on Ubuntu. In both of these cases, I was using my old PIII 900Mhz, 512MB Thinkpad T22. The problem that I’ve run into lately is that GNOME is beginning to have a clunky feel to it on this system. It is well known that GNOME is fairly memory intensive; combine this with an annoying Firefox memory leak, and you have yourself a system that can really bog down. I tend to carry out several parallel tasks using open applications on multiple virtual desktops. The result is a lot of hard drive thrashing because the system keeps running out of physical memory. [...] [...] In any case, I still have not taken the plunge and installed Vector, but there was one interesting discussion in the above mentioned review that caused me to take a parallel investigative leap. Up until now, I have relied on both KDE and GNOME to serve my Linux desktop environment needs. For the past couple of years, I used KDE on Mandrake up until just recently when I switched to GNOME on Ubuntu. In both of these cases, I was using my old PIII 900Mhz, 512MB Thinkpad T22. The problem that I’ve run into lately is that GNOME is beginning to have a clunky feel to it on this system. It is well known that GNOME is fairly memory intensive; combine this with an annoying Firefox memory leak, and you have yourself a system that can really bog down. I tend to carry out several parallel tasks using open applications on multiple virtual desktops. The result is a lot of hard drive thrashing because the system keeps running out of physical memory. [...]

]]> http://www.owenkellett.info/2005/08/21/firefox-memory-leak/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Owen Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:13:25 +0000 http://www.owenkellett.info/2005/08/21/firefox-memory-leak/#comment-40 Yeah so far this extension seems to work very well. One thing that I haven't made much use of is all of the Firefox extensions that are out there. Perhaps I should look more closely to see if there are any more that would be particularly useful to me. Yeah so far this extension seems to work very well. One thing that I haven’t made much use of is all of the Firefox extensions that are out there. Perhaps I should look more closely to see if there are any more that would be particularly useful to me.

]]> http://www.owenkellett.info/2005/08/21/firefox-memory-leak/comment-page-1/#comment-39 sawai Sun, 21 Aug 2005 10:15:11 +0000 http://www.owenkellett.info/2005/08/21/firefox-memory-leak/#comment-39 Thanks for the tip dude, I really needed this... Thanks for the tip dude, I really needed this…

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