[Wolves] Mozilla issue

[Jatinder Virdee]

Adam

Thanks for the info your right its difficult to pin poinr the problem i just
thjought id check to see if anyone else has had the same issue. I'll do the
test as you have indicated and see if I can pin point the culprit.

Thanks
Jat


On 29/08/06, Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Jatinder Virdee <jatvirdee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Can anyone help, ive just upgraded from breezy to
> > dapper drake, and i'm
> > seeing major performance problems with mozilla.
> > Basically when I scroll up
> > and down on a webpage its not smooth the scrolling
> > keeps jittering, I had 0
> > issues when i was running breezy.
>
> I've not encountered this problem and I don't really
> know how to tell you what to do to find the problem.
>
> First port of call would be to look at the system
> resources tool (I'm sorry I forget what it's called, I
> don't have an Ubuntu desktop nearby), this thing that
> lets you look at what processes are running and how
> much memory and CPU time they are using. See if
> Firefox is eating loads of CPU time.
>
> If you can't find the tool I mean, it is the
> equivalent of running 'top' on the command line, so
> try that instead (q to quit).
>
> Whether or not it is eating CPU time, it doesn't tell
> you anything about the cause of the problem. Does this
> happen on all websites or just some?
>
> Theres no easy way of working out what the problem is
> without getting busy with some kind of debugger or
> profiling tool. Try disabling all of your Firefox
> extensions and 3rd party plugins and restarting FF.
> I've known the Flash plugin make things go weird
> before. If things are better, add them back in one at
> a time and restart to see which one makes the problem
> come back.
>
> Other than that I don't know how to help you I'm
> afraid.
>
> Ad
>
> --
>
> http://www.drinky.org.uk
>
> http://blog.adamsweet.org
>
>
>
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