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Luigi Pinna <mailing-gentoo@××××××××××××.com> posted |
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200611261242.24638.mailing-gentoo@××××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on |
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Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:42:20 +0100: |
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> I think that a found the problem: firefox-bin. If I use that program (to |
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> use flash website) and I forget it open, X process starts to eat the |
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> memory; if I close it the problem diseappear and very slowly it releases |
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> the memory. |
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Unfortunately, firefox isn't known for being the most stable app on the |
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planet. There are a lot of folks that use it but can't leave it open for |
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long periods, or anyway as long as they would if they could, due to they |
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way it manages/leaks memory. |
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Unfortunately, flash isn't resource-thrifty either, and being a |
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source-less binary program, well let's just say it's easy to blame it for |
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stuff that may or may not be its problem, because it's not open source. |
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(As such, it's not going to be on my computer, period, and I'd tend to be |
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one blaming it, but to be fair, it's easy to blame since it /is/ a black |
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box we can't see inside of.) From what I've read, some people find FF's |
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problems worse when they run flash (just reporting it as I've read it). |
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So... a couple things that could help, if that is the problem.... One, |
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get that extension that turns flash embeds into click-links, thereby |
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avoiding it running unnecessarily. (I'm a Konqueror fan so don't expect |
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me to remember the name of the FF extension...) Two, shut down FF when |
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you aren't using it. |
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Of course, I'd /rather/ you simply decided proprietaryware flash wasn't |
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worth it, but it's your computer and your decision, and not one that I'd |
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make for you even if I could, as what sort of freedom would I believe in |
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then. =8^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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