On 08/29/2014 07:49 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 08/27/2014 11:51 AM, Jim Sabatke wrote:
Add-ins is a good bet. I'll disable and report back. It may take a while because of the nature of memory problems. One problem with add-ins is that often websites I need won't run without them.
I'm running 26 and haven't been able to find any newer packages to install.
Jim,
I would put my money on an ill-behaved add-on. I'm ultra picky about firefox/thunderbird -- and the latest (while the UI is a pain) has been very well behaved from a memory/performance standpoint.
MozillaFirefox-31.0-33.1.x86_64
I generally have it up for weeks at a time with 5-15 tabs going. The only thing you really have to watch for are sights that force continual reloads and js updates. Other than that, FF 31 gets a very good grade.
Thank you. I'm sure you are right about an add-on, though I only have a couple, like a password manager, and it's hard to imagine that taking up memory. I hate js and I would put money on that. As an old 'C', awk, yacc and lex programmer, the newer technologies are a bit of a mystery to me, though I understand them conceptually. I've designed and built quite a few little languages over my career, which was kind of my niche; solving problems with data structures and languages. That's the technology I come from and understand. I had expressed concerns about using non-Suse-generated distros because Suse loves to put things in different places than other distros. I've used Suse since 3.x and over time have been burned by disparate lib's, so I have avoided them over time. Of course I do compile quite a few programs that I need, like gimp plug-ins that aren't available any other way when I have to. So, any advice and guidance on installing a newer Firefox version would be appreciated. I'm sure I'll have to uninstall the existing stuff, but that's easy to do. Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org