[ubuntu-studio-users] PC slowing down and freezing after upgrade of hardware

[David King]

On 07/03/14 22:27, David King wrote:
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> Thanks for your suggestions.
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> The slowdown just occured again, when trying to open a link in Firefox 
> from an email in Thunderbird. I was able to look at the System Monitor 
> and view the RAM usage, it went to max again, but there was a process 
> called Browser which was using over 2 GB of RAM, in addition to 
> Firefox using over 3 GB of RAM (I have a lot of tabs open). So I 
> forceably closed the Browser process but left Firefox running, and 
> immediately the RAM usage went down, and the PC was responsive again. 
> However, I also had to close Firefox as that was not responding.
>
> I am thinking in part it is a bug in Firefox.
>
> As for the USB device, I still have no idea what the error message 
> means or why it is repeating itself endlessly in the console without 
> stopping.
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> David K
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For the USB error, I managed to get rid of that by plugging the USB 
mouse into a different port.

For the Firefox error, I found this online which suggests that there is 
a problem with Firefox 27 that others are having:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/986641


For now I am using Qupzilla instead of Firefox, until the next version 
of Firefox which will hopefully fix the problem.



David K


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