[Discuss] fiefox and HD thrashing

[pw]

Drew wrote:
>> I have seen Firefox itself "hang", in which case I had to kill it from a terminal, but it never affected the other applications. I have also seen it suddenly simply die.
> 
> I've seen Firefox 'hang' KDE (and WinXP) for anywhere from one-half to
> several seconds when interacting with various websites. Never really
> figured out exactly what caused it except that it usually happened
> after leaving Firefox running for days at a time and it's memory
> footprint under KDE or XP was on the order of 250MB+.
> 

O.K., this sounds familiar.
Usually FF hangs the computer when it has been open on the desktop
for a couple days with a bunch of wikipedia tabs that I have been
saving. Quite annoying after spending substantial time connecting a
bunch of dots.

Peter