[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 23:22:14 +0000, bad apple <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/01/14 22:13, Rob Beard wrote: > >> Mint just works for me (Mint Debian Edition at the moment). Generally it >> runs okay, can be a CPU hog at times if I have loads of tabs open (say 50 >> to 100 or so). On occasion my machine starts to run at a crawl and I >> just >> reboot it :-) >> >> That's on a 5.5 year old Core 2 Duo 2Ghz laptop with 4GB Ram and onboard >> Intel graphics. > > Well, rebooting is guaranteed to fix it but seems like a bit of a blunt > tool... to put it mildly. Wouldn't just killing or re-nicing the runaway > process/processes be a better idea? > > Presuming you're talking about flash on Firefox, which is admittedly a > known memory hog in certain scenarios, you could also update Firefox to > a nightly build and set browser.tabs.remote to true in about:config. > This is the experimental "Electrolysis" feature which is Mozilla's long > overdue implementation of sandboxed tabs, which Chrome and IE have had > for a while. > > The advantage is you can simply kill the memory-sucking tab(s) running > Flash whilst leaving your other 50-100 (!!) tabs still open, without > having to even restart Firefox, let alone the entire computer. > > Regards > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis Interesting, I'll take a look. Generally I'm just too lazy to close tabs, although I now have "Restore Previous Session" tabs with shed loads of tabs in them too. I think this year I'm going to look at getting a newer laptop with a bit more memory, although I've been saying that for the past 2 years... never seem to get round to it, and this little laptop just keeps on going :-) Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq