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    Re: News - Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 available for download

    Quote Originally Posted by miniyazz View Post
    Alt+D will solve all your problems.


    Unfortunately, I spoke to soon been running for just under 24 hours now, with perhaps 6 hours usage, including opening and closing a few dozen tabs on top of my current 60 odd. Memory usage has doubled to just under 900MB and every 10 seconds or so CPU spikes for a second or so, during which time FF freezes. CPU time currently sits at just over 3 hours.. which means it's doing full CPU usage for one in every eight seconds, disregarding the few hours after starting it when there were no such issues - so in reality somewhat higher average CPU usage for most of the time.
    I'm not seeing that on a 1GB 2GHz P4 system (114MB consumed at the moment).

    Of course, you are running an awful lot of tabs, whilst I'm running only nine at the moment and probably expect to possibly double it throughout the rest of the day. I can say with certainty though, that 3.5 was nowhere near as good, though.

    I suspect you've possibly got a very javascript heavy site somewhere that's dragging things down.

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    Re: News - Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 available for download

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    What he means is, when you load firefox, hit Alt+D, start typing in an address, when the homepage loads before you finish typing, the page will steal the focus and move the caret into the google search text box. Which *is* exceptionally annoying.
    Exactily. How has no one that makes web browsers spotted this yet?
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    Re: News - Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 available for download

    Quote Originally Posted by aceuk View Post
    Noli. Have you tried AdBlock+ for Chrome?

    Thanks - gave it a try. Unfortunately it involves using a beta channel of Chrome to use extensions at the moment. I switched to the beta channel and tried to load AdBlock+ but even following a lot of instructions, just couldn't get it to work. (I should have added the condition "and easy to install" in my list of criteria). Anyway, thanks for the suggestion but I guess I'll just have to wait till extensions come out of beta and become mainstream and common :/

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    Re: News - Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 available for download

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    What he means is, when you load firefox, hit Alt+D, start typing in an address, when the homepage loads before you finish typing, the page will steal the focus and move the caret into the google search text box. Which *is* exceptionally annoying.
    Oh, yes agreed. Tell it to load a blank page on startup?

    Quote Originally Posted by Syllopsium View Post
    I'm not seeing that on a 1GB 2GHz P4 system (114MB consumed at the moment).

    Of course, you are running an awful lot of tabs, whilst I'm running only nine at the moment and probably expect to possibly double it throughout the rest of the day. I can say with certainty though, that 3.5 was nowhere near as good, though.

    I suspect you've possibly got a very javascript heavy site somewhere that's dragging things down.

    PK
    I'd suspect that, except it doesn't happen straight away, which I'd expect it to do since the tab content doesn't really change :/

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    Re: News - Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 available for download

    Quote Originally Posted by miniyazz View Post
    Oh, yes agreed. Tell it to load a blank page on startup?



    I'd suspect that, except it doesn't happen straight away, which I'd expect it to do since the tab content doesn't really change :/
    Have you tried disabling all your extensions? It's entirely possible you have a rogue one.. I only have Adblock Plus, British English Dictionary, Java quick starter and the OKCupid toolbar. Also just about to enable Noscript.

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    Re: News - Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 available for download

    Quote Originally Posted by Syllopsium View Post
    Have you tried disabling all your extensions? It's entirely possible you have a rogue one.. I only have Adblock Plus, British English Dictionary, Java quick starter and the OKCupid toolbar. Also just about to enable Noscript.

    PK
    Currently running Adblock Plus, Google Toolbar (I imagine those two at least are sufficiently widely used that others would have had issues) and Tab Mix Plus. And while Google Toolbar, and perhaps Adblock Plus, are both available on web browsers other than FF, I haven't come across anything with the functionality of Tab Mix Plus. The only behaviour possible (correct me if things have changed in the last 6 months/year) by other web browsers, with multiple tabs, is to have half of them off the screen - "scrollable" to. Tab Mix Plus lets me have as many rows of tabs (at whatever width I want) as I want at the top of the page. That's the only way I can quickly flick between tabs - I know where they all are, and can see them all at once - scrolling drives me mad.
    Basically, I'd try disabling my extensions to see if that fixed the problem - but there's no point, because even if disabling one of them did fix the problem, I wouldn't change browser. I'd far rather live with annoying slow-downs and maybe have to restart FF every day or so if it got too bad, than have to scroll through dozens of tabs without slow-downs. Or live without Adblock Plus or Google Toolbar, if the problem did happen to be with one of them - tbh my extensions are limited to ones I really need, at the moment.

    That make any sense?

    Thanks

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