[ale] Firefox periodically needs restarting

[James Sumners]

That's just the by-product of running any web browser for a long time
without restarting it.

On Jan 6, 2008 1:54 PM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> Has anyone else seen this?  I run Firefox for a while, usually a few
> days and it start slowing down to a crawl.  Typically I experience the
> slowdown by attempting to scroll a window by dragging the slider and it
> is stuck for a few seconds.  Then I might click on a link and nothing
> for a few seconds, then if I put up with it long enough when I do
> something it just hangs.  Never to come back.  Killlall javascript-bin
> time.  It's using a bunch of memory but then it does that when I first
> open it up.  And yes, I usually have a few windows and tabs open, but
> the only one usually with ajax activity is gmail.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim



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