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Today's Topics:

  1. Re: Firefox (Charles Lindsey)


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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:07:36 +0100
From: "Charles Lindsey" <chl <at> clerew.man.ac.uk>
To: suns-at-home <at> net-kitchen.com
Subject: Re: [Suns-at-Home] Firefox
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> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:55:57 +0200
> From: "E. Groenenberg" <quapla <at> xs4all.nl>
> 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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