[Discuss] fiefox and HD thrashing

[pw]

R. Langkamer wrote:
> On 12/29/07 2:26 PM, pw wrote:
> 
>> O.K., this sounds familiar.
>> Usually FF hangs the computer when it has been open on the desktop
>> for a couple days with a bunch of wikipedia tabs that I have been
>> saving. Quite annoying after spending substantial time connecting a
>> bunch of dots.
>>
>> Peter
> 
> 
>     What I do when I have a browser window(s) open with a large number 
> of tabs and the system starts to misbehave, is I save the group of tabs 
> and then shut it down. When I start it back up, I can easily open the 
> group of tabs I was researching and continue where I left off.
> 


Yes, occasionally FF comes back with the 'recover session' dialog
when I start it up again. That has also been inconsistent. Maybe
there must be some difference between 'kill -9'  and 'shutdown -r now'
where FF closing files is concerned. One must clean out /var/<whatsits>
and /tmp/<whatsits>.

Peter