<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/02/14 15:41, Colin Law wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CAL=0gLv0C73G2aX=uescKAaz_G15TUggm9KmJ5E5M8bScNpzrw@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 2 February 2014 13:55, Colin Law <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:clanlaw@gmail.com"><clanlaw@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 2 February 2014 13:04, Anthony Harrington <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Untaintableangel@hotmail.co.uk"><Untaintableangel@hotmail.co.uk></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 02/02/14 12:25, Colin Law wrote: On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:j.fernyhough@gmail.com"><j.fernyhough@gmail.com></a> wrote: On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:clanlaw@gmail.com"><clanlaw@gmail.com></a> wrote: HI -- I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? -- Colin Which version of Firefox are you running? You might try the beta or aurora channels; I've seen a fair few issues with FF26, for example, that I haven't seen in 27a or 28a. I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install it. Having said that, I've occasionally had high CPU with Gmail. I wonder if it sometimes gets stuck in an AJAX loop (or some other race condition). Possible. Though if it were a loop in javascript then I would expect that FF should still be able to be closed down ok. Thanks Colin I'd recommend adding the Mozilla daily ppa and upgrading your installation that way. It's usually updated everyday of the year, give or take the odd week around holidays (for obvious reasons!) but i've yet to have problems with it in all the years i've been using it. It really is a great resource. to add it, do: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa then sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get remove firefox && sudo apt-get install firefox-trunk </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I will give that a go. Thanks Anthony. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Well that went ok, it even copied across my profile. Just have to wait now to see if the problem shows itself again. Colin </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> you'll get the very latest version everytime you update, from now on. (Currently 29 alpha) (Underlined part is optional if you want to take out mainline firefox ) Any problems and you can always put firefox back. (I think you can have them both installed at the same time, but i'd err on caution and only keep the one you're going to use incase there's any profile clashing? Shouldn't be because they're stored in separate folders, but your call, i'm sure you'll be happy with the results of this.) -- Launchpad translator and linux chemist ^_^ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/~untaintableangel">https://launchpad.net/~untaintableangel</a> -- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> Actually, since there could be others reading this that want some tips, there are further steps you can do to minimise firefox usage. There are memory tweaks and other stuff you can fiddle with in <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="about:config">about:config</a> that might reduce your cpu usage e.g. if you cache more or in situations, allow more to be stored in memory before sending for more data. But a good quick area to focus on is flash. On my setup, i've got the greasemonkey addon along with a script for it called 'viewtube' Viewtube is very effective at forcing youtube/dailymotion etc flash videos to work in whatever player you choose in the list on the video and i set mine to highest definition available in html5. There's a very small learning curve for what it does - like it gives you a 'get' option to download the video, and you can set it to 'html5' or 'vlc' or 'xine' (xine is good if nothing else will work but 99% of the time html5 works great and no adverts and loads very quickly but more importantly, without flash, the cpu usage stays much lower.) The only thing i ever actually need the flash plugin for now is if i want to watch a video posted on facebook and i can't copy the youtube link and open it in a new tab in html5. While flash does once in a blue moon end up crashing the browser because of a facebook video, it never happens unexpectedly or often at all, so i went to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="about:config">about:config</a> and made dom.ipc.plugins.enabled false. (Search for 'dom.ipc' in <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="about:config">about:config</a> and set the top three booleans to false.) This controls the 'plugin container' a separate process running with firefox that contains plugins (as the name implies!) so that if they crash, they don't take firefox with it. Without the process however, the cpu usage does drop a fair bit. Much less than in previous versions/previous years, but i live perfectly happily without it, maybe you might be too? Might be worth testing for yourself because it certainly made my life easier. It doesn't make sense to have it if you can circumvent your flash usage because its purely a safety net. In response to using the firefox tarballs from their site and running like that, i have done this before and you're right it is VERY simple and contained and the update packages are smaller, but i feel like it's much less integrated with the desktop unless you physically install it from a ppa or build it from source. (Although it is easy to make a launcher for it on the old gnome-shell desktop via alacarte, never done this for unity!) Best of luck! <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Launchpad translator and linux chemist ^_^ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/~untaintableangel">https://launchpad.net/~untaintableangel</a> </pre> </body> </html>