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From: wu chuanwen <wcw8410@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:03:51
Message-Id: 7797aa370604301052p5efc2018m30f70570bffee8b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow? by Heiko Wundram
1 2006/4/30, Heiko Wundram <me+gentoo-user@×××××××××.org>:
2 > Am Sonntag 30 April 2006 14:24 schrieb wu chuanwen:
3 > > I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my
4 > > machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and
5 > > even can not scroll up and down.Many peple have the same situation.Do you
6 > > think so? And how can you solve this problem?
7 >
8 > Most certainly, this is a memory issue. For every tab you have open, Firefox
9 > keeps a 30-something pages history cache in memory, including pictures, for
10 > quicker "back-browsing". If you are under tight memory (<512MB, I'd say), you
11 My memory is 512mb,but still consider what you said is the point.
12 > quickly notice that the memory requirements of Firefox make the computer
13 > start to swap, and that the system slows down considerably.
14 >
15 > You can turn off this history-caching somewhere, someplace on about:config,
16 > but I wouldn't know where. Search the net. You're not the first one to
17 > complain about this.
18 I have larger the cache to 80MB.
19 It's not enough now?
20 >
21 > --- Heiko.
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