mozilla based browser problems...

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theCheat · Post by **theCheat** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 8:17 pm

I'm getting problems with any mozilla-based browser I use (firebird, epiphany, galeon.) After several minutes of browsing, the browser becomes VERY slow, hanging for up to one minute before desplaying the intended page. Anyone else seeing this?

Zoltan · Post by **Zoltan** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 8:42 pm

Check your /var/log/kern.log, /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog, etc. It looks very much like you encountered a memory leak and kernel kills your browser for taking all of your memory. It happened to me, kernel reports of killing the process so should know from the logs.

ventricle · Post by **ventricle** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 3:22 pm

Heh, at least it doesn't just close on you. Well, epiphany crashes with an error window, but mozill and firebird just close off. There are a couple of websites I know just kill it. I am certain this is a shared library problem in gentoo and I'm going to remove gentoo and install slackware to fix it, as it's been this way for going close to a month and it makes the system unusable.

Zeitgeist · Post by **Zeitgeist** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 4:28 pm

Have you tried launching Mozilla from console and looking for any errors?

Have you ran revdep-rebuild to see if it finds any missing libraries?

Those should help. The slowdown you are talking about might just be gecko doing its job...

ventricle · Post by **ventricle** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 5:05 pm

Hi,
Yes I tried from the command line, nothing at all. The browser windows just close (except Epiphany which pops the gnome crash box).
I have not run revdev-rebuild. I'll give it a go.

rowi · Post by **rowi** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 5:20 pm

Do those website which crash your browser use any plugins? Maybe it's a crashing plugin