On 4/30/06, Heiko Wundram <me+gentoo-user@modelnine.org> wrote:
>
> 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.Doyou
> > 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
> 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 guess Firefox is slow now because of whole lot of Extentions that we used
today.




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