From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Hungry firefox
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 20:48:07 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mfhli7$sni$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20150401173000.7ad251d3@hactar.digimed.co.uk
On 2015-04-01, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:34:19 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>
>> > Has anyone else here noticed firefox consuming 15% or so of CPU time,
>> > even while it's not supposed to be doing anything?
>>
>> Occasionally, I've had javascripts running away with the CPU,
>> which stops when I kill FF & restart it. That's just bad JS
>> programming.
>
> Do you have to kill the whole browser and not just the offending tab?
Just the offending tab _should_ do it.
> That's just bad programming...
Probably. From what I've seen, the web is build almost entirely out
on "bad programming". I'm not sure it's even possible to do good
programming in PHP, though you can in JavaScript.
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at you DIE, you can't take
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CENTER with you??
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-01 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-01 14:03 [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox Peter Humphrey
2015-04-01 15:03 ` Daniel Frey
2015-04-01 15:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2015-04-01 15:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Philip Webb
2015-04-01 15:44 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-04-01 16:18 ` Philip Webb
2015-04-01 16:30 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-01 20:48 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2015-04-02 7:28 ` Philip Webb
2015-04-02 8:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-02 22:07 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2015-04-02 23:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Frank Steinmetzger
2015-04-02 23:10 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2015-04-03 9:16 ` Philip Webb
2015-04-03 7:25 ` Stroller
2015-04-01 15:38 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2015-04-01 17:43 ` [gentoo-user] " wabenbau
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