Lonni J Friedman wrote:
On 5/9/06, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 5/9/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Old habits die hard, and my wife insists on using Mozilla even though
> firefox is installed.
>
> Unfortunately, her mozilla, when left running for a few days, starts
> to bring the system to its knees. Simply moving the mouse cursor
> anywhere causes cpu usage to spike, window redraw takes seconds,
> occasionally the mouse will even freeze in place for a second at a
> time. Its just horrible. What makes no sense to me is that looking at
> the mozilla-bin process, its not using that much memory (no more than
> firefox), and if the system is left 'idle', CPU usage isn't even high.
> As soon as mozilla is killed, performance immediately returns to
> normal.
>
> I thought it might be extensions, however she's only using adblock,
> and its the same version of adblock as i use in firefox (which doesn't
> exhibit this problem). This is FC4-x86, fully up to date via yum.
>
> Anyone else seen this problem, or have any troubleshooting ideas?
>
Upgrade to seamonkey.
Is this a known bug that is fixed in seamonkey?
Are there FC RPMs for seamonkey?
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