Re: Firefox

> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:55:57 +0200
> From: "E. Groenenberg" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Suns-at-Home] Firefox

>> I have installed Firefox 7.0 on an Ultra-2 running Solaris 10. It runs
>> like a drain, using 100% of a cpu for long periods of time with little  =

>> to
>> show for it. Pstack shows a stack of incredible depth, most of the
>> routines having something to do with "reflow". Their support site has
>> vague mentions of some graphics cards which might not be playing well.

> Well, funny that you mentioned it. I'm using FF7 on build 129 of Open
> Solaris and just performs as one would expect (Ultra-27, nvdia FX card,
> office machine).
> While at home (Ultra-20 also with Nvidia FX) I'm using Solaris 10 with
> FF7 and it slows down from performing proper to the speed of a snail
> during a weeks usage.

You mean you left FF7 running continuously for a week? So presumably  =

restarting it put it back to normal?

In that case it is not the problem I am seeing, since mine starts off  =

running slow. I need to do a bit more debugging to see exactly what it  =

thinks it is doing.

Does anyone know what sort of fancy things Firefox might be asking the  =

Creator Graphics (or any other FB) to do? It certsinly seems to demand a  =

vast collection of graphis-related libraries to be available. The sites  =

that seemed worst were Firefox's own help pages.

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