From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FaGGt-0002AY-89 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:03:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k3UI11vn032343; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:01:01 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.231]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3UHqCnE017983 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:52:13 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 58so438342wri for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:52:12 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hd2yJwVTfx3gWlQFNKvkJe9e1Jl1A8X1oKrhPTNsn28ZhuzQITyFDg9mhjhSXiwPDxOaeuuILDhE8z/q6xlJMjx+jjiPjSj+cvOJ9Qo2FNlGM8F3/GId/1TUlFIKxZ9Z2+atfZSu6aQIxYX4NmaJBvYFhr6++yT6nfRRFbH2iL8= Received: by 10.65.138.17 with SMTP id q17mr623864qbn; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.52.5 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7797aa370604301052p5efc2018m30f70570bffee8b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:52:12 +0000 From: "wu chuanwen" <wcw8410@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow? In-Reply-To: <200604301910.21639.me+gentoo-user@modelnine.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline References: <7797aa370604300524i6b8616ebr947b762fec45f92a@mail.gmail.com> <200604301910.21639.me+gentoo-user@modelnine.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k3UHqCnE017983 X-Archives-Salt: dee2b29b-dd0d-4819-9583-b7a60d0c48c7 X-Archives-Hash: 21dd92d29707c69db2c9b04a19b4fcdd 2006/4/30, Heiko Wundram <me+gentoo-user@modelnine.org>: > Am Sonntag 30 April 2006 14:24 schrieb wu chuanwen: > > I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my > > machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and > > even can not scroll up and down.Many peple have the same situation.Do you > > think so? And how can you solve this problem? > > Most certainly, this is a memory issue. For every tab you have open, Firefox > keeps a 30-something pages history cache in memory, including pictures, for > quicker "back-browsing". If you are under tight memory (<512MB, I'd say), you My memory is 512mb,but still consider what you said is the point. > quickly notice that the memory requirements of Firefox make the computer > start to swap, and that the system slows down considerably. > > You can turn off this history-caching somewhere, someplace on about:config, > but I wouldn't know where. Search the net. You're not the first one to > complain about this. I have larger the cache to 80MB. It's not enough now? > > --- Heiko. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- wcw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list