Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/20

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Subject: [Leica] OT, Firefox Problem
From: brianhome at linkus.net (Brian Sledz)
Date: Mon Nov 20 11:10:01 2006
References: <380-22006111201911575@M2W031.mail2web.com>

There was talk of a "memory leak" on the Apple discussions involving  
Safari and Firefox, my Safari has been tossing the dreaded spinning  
beach ball way too much.  Seems like the same behavior???
Brian S
On Nov 20, 2006, at 1:01 PM, durling@cox.net wrote:

> Hmmm, I may be having the same problem.  Something wierd was  
> happening on a
> little-used machine after I upgraded to 1.5.0.8.
>
> Actually I loaded Firefox 2.0 on my work machine and it is pretty  
> stable.
> You might want to try that.  You may have to reload some of the  
> plugins if
> you use any, but that is pretty automatic as well.
>
> Mike D
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Jim Nichols jhnichols@bellsouth.net
> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:17:08 -0600
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] OT, Firefox Problem
>
>
> Firefox Users,
>
> Frequently, since Firefox downloaded and installed Version 1.5.0.8  
> last
> week, I have experienced what my Systems Analyst son calls a  
> "processor
> hog", where my processor is saturated with unknown activity and all  
> normal
> activity ceases.  In most cases, I have to kill power to the system in
> order to reboot.  I have tried a number of suggested fixes but the  
> problem
> persists.  I am now using IE 7, but would like to get back to FF.  Has
> anyone else experienced this?
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
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