On Thursday 06 November 2008 04:15, Dave Howorth wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Thursday, 2008-11-06 at 10:32 +0100, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Probably related to that: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=363381 ?
FYI, in 32 bits, I have known "for years" that when you open a PDF in firefox/mozilla, acrobat stays loaded at least till firefox exits, or acrobat is killed manually - closing the tab displaying the file is not enough. And it uses a lot of memory, so killing it manually is something to consider.
This is well-known to me also. As well as memory acroread sometimes takes CPU. It's very annoying to have to exit firefox every day or so.
Actually, I've long given up trying to keep Firefox running day-to-day and now shut it down every night and restart it the next morning. I'm still running 2.0.x (on SuSE Linux 10.0) and I believe this version is known to have memory leaks. I keep many windows and very many tabs open and use Tab Mix Plus. Tab Mix Plus seems to have a certain probability of triggering a deadlock during shutdown (requiring me to kill Firefox) when I'm confirming the "You are about to close N tabs" alerts (actually, it's a pure hunch that Tab Mix Plus is involved in this, since I've been using it so long I don't really have a valid control case with which to compare the behavior I see). I've found that if I watch the CPU meter in the System Monitor applet and wait for the CPU usage to die down before clicking the OK, I can avoid the deadlock. Also, I've noticed that on my openSUSE 10.3 box, Firefox will spontaneously die on me, always when I'm not actively using it! I'll just look up at some point and it will be gone. This system is a secondary one and I never have so many windows and tabs open (and the system has twice as much memory, 4 GB, as the 10.0 system). Anyway, Firefox at least as of 2.0.0.10 and 2.0.0.17, is not what I'd call "bug-free" or even entirely reliable or stable...
Cheers, Dave
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