Firefox going awol for a while

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 07 April 2011 10:12:18 kde at mail.kde.org wrote:
> This is a bit similar to the spell check problem on kmail only much shorter
> duration. Basically
> 
> 10 to 12 active tabs and I open a fresh window from one of those from time
> to time. May also open tabs in that. Then close it and go back to the main
> one. ;-) works for me. The main window has been up for 14hrs but don't
> think that has anything to do with it.
> 
> Several times while using firefox in this way it hangs for maybe a min or
> more and then decides to catch up.
> 
> I have also had a black screen for a few seconds on several occasions while
> using various apps.
> 
> Are these related to power save by any chance? I have used pc for a long
> time so always disable them. I might spend many mins reading and thinking
> about something or the other and the start up time gets annoying. A 
> desktop power save button to activate it would be far more suitable.
> 
> holp - it was working a few secs ago - spell check not here again. was a
> few seconds ago - UNDERLINING WORDS WHILE I TYPED THEM RATHER THAN WAITING
> FOR THE END
> Notice all caps also goes further across the page.
> 
> Regards
> John
> OpenSuse 11.4 KDE 4.6.0 release 6

Are you sure you have enough RAM for all this?  Every tab uses a fair amount 
of memory, and when it is used up you will get swapping occurring.

Anne
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