Re: Is it just me [Firefox resouce drain]

2011-11-09 Thread Miles Bader
Camaleón writes: > There you have it: blame the browser :-) > You can also try Google Chrome, it is also known to be fast. I've found that on most web pages, especially "modern" ones (lots of javascript, etc), FF 7 is usually signficantly _faster_ than chrome. FF after 6 became really, really, fa

Re: Is it just me [Firefox resouce drain]

2011-11-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:43:25 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >>> I've been logging on to verizonwireless periodically for a good while >>> and never saw this kind of pull down. Only this new page seems to be >>> a heavy hitter. >> >> You can also try to load the same site with a

Re: Is it just me [Firefox resouce drain]

2011-11-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Camaleón writes: >> I've been logging on to verizonwireless periodically for a good while >> and never saw this kind of pull down. Only this new page seems to be a >> heavy hitter. > > You can also try to load the same site with another browser and see if > you experience a difference with it :

Re: Is it just me [Firefox resouce drain]

2011-11-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:58:13 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/index.html >> >>> As soon as I kill the tab or some other way, stop loading that page. >>> It all goes away so clearly somehow the Xorg resource pull is due to >>> firefox at that pag

Re: Is it just me [Firefox resouce drain]

2011-11-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Camaleón writes: > > Unless you meant: > > http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/index.html > >> As soon as I kill the tab or some other way, stop loading that page. It >> all goes away so clearly somehow the Xorg resource pull is due to >> firefox at that page. > > The page is plenty of javascript

Re: Is it just me [Firefox resouce drain]

2011-11-05 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:34 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running updated wheezy > > Does any other firefox user see this phenomena: > > Running Firefox 7.0.1 When I navigate to this specific page I see really > massive resources being pulled. It is listed it `top' as being Xorg, > but it only

Re: Is it just me [Firefox resouce drain]

2011-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
"John A. Sullivan III" writes: [...] >By the way, I am also running Squeeze and not Wheezy. > The iceweasel pid still shows up as firefox and not iceweasel - John It turns out, I get the exact same response with iceweasel too. So it must be something local... but what on earth could cause

Re: Is it just me [Firefox resouce drain]

2011-11-04 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 21:02 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Harry Putnam writes: > > > Running updated wheezy > > > > Does any other firefox user see this phenomena: > > > > Running Firefox 7.0.1 When I navigate to this specific page I see > > really massive resources being pulled. It is listed it

Re: Is it just me [Firefox resouce drain]

2011-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > Running updated wheezy > > Does any other firefox user see this phenomena: > > Running Firefox 7.0.1 When I navigate to this specific page I see > really massive resources being pulled. It is listed it `top' as being > Xorg, but it only happens when I run firefox and try

Is it just me [Firefox resouce drain]

2011-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Running updated wheezy Does any other firefox user see this phenomena: Running Firefox 7.0.1 When I navigate to this specific page I see really massive resources being pulled. It is listed it `top' as being Xorg, but it only happens when I run firefox and try to load this page: www.verzonwr