Trembling Mouse
 

The latest quirk I’m experiencing with Firefox/Iceweasel 3.5.5 is that,
after it’s been running continuously for about a week, it seems to develop a
case of the DTs where the pointer rapidly oscillates between the arrow and
the pointing finger. When this happens, the browser becomes unresponsive.

To its credit, it hasn’t actually crashed or bogged down my system once
since I upgraded from 3.0.x. I just get fed up with it running slower and
slower, and kill and restart it. It’s good that it remembers all my tabs and
windows, and restores them.

And yes, I am using Adobe’s 64-bit Flash Player.

Re: Trembling Mouse
 

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> The latest quirk I’m experiencing with Firefox/Iceweasel 3.5.5 is that,
> after it’s been running continuously for about a week, it seems to develop a
> case of the DTs where the pointer rapidly oscillates between the arrow and
> the pointing finger. When this happens, the browser becomes unresponsive.
>
> To its credit, it hasn’t actually crashed or bogged down my system once
> since I upgraded from 3.0.x. I just get fed up with it running slower and
> slower, and kill and restart it. It’s good that it remembers all my tabs and
> windows, and restores them.
>
> And yes, I am using Adobe’s 64-bit Flash Player.

You could try using Firefox on a stable OS such as Windows 7 (where I do
not see the issue you are describing) rather then on Debian unstable.

Re: Trembling Mouse
 

In message <hegelu$dg$2@aioe.org>, EMB wrote:

> You could try using Firefox on ... Windows 7 (where I do
> not see the issue you are describing) ...

How long do you leave it running at a time?

Re: Trembling Mouse
 

"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote in message
news:heghj2$19d$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> In message <hegelu$dg$2@aioe.org>, EMB wrote:
>
>> You could try using Firefox on ... Windows 7 (where I do
>> not see the issue you are describing) ...
>
> How long do you leave it running at a time?

Just out of curiousity, why do you leave your browser running all the time?
It only takes a second or two to start up again.

Re: Trembling Mouse
 

Nik Coughlin wrote:
> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote in
> message news:heghj2$19d$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>> In message <hegelu$dg$2@aioe.org>, EMB wrote:
>>
>>> You could try using Firefox on ... Windows 7 (where I do
>>> not see the issue you are describing) ...
>>
>> How long do you leave it running at a time?
>
> Just out of curiousity, why do you leave your browser running all the
> time? It only takes a second or two to start up again.

Yes, but not to open the 40-50 tabs I have sitting there which I will
get around to reading one day soon...

Why should I not be able to leave it running all the time. Yes, firefox
leaks memory like crazy and eventually screws up, but I shouldnt have to
adapt my usage to accomodate for long standing issues in the browser,
they should be fixed.

Re: Trembling Mouse
 

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message <hegelu$dg$2@aioe.org>, EMB wrote:
>
>> You could try using Firefox on ... Windows 7 (where I do
>> not see the issue you are describing) ...
>
> How long do you leave it running at a time?
>
The Windows 7 virtual box that lives under VMWare on my server has had
FF open for at least a couple of weeks so far. I use it much as you
mention elsewhere - lots of "I'll get round to looking at that" type
tabs open, and I just RDP onto it from wherever I happen to be when I
have a few free minutes to read.

On a related note, Thunderbird/Win whatever (XP, Vista and 7) is
significantly less than stable and crashes at random intervals (probably
related the the extensions I have installed).

Re: Trembling Mouse
 

In message <hei758$6vf$1@aioe.org>, EMB wrote:

> The Windows 7 virtual box that lives under VMWare on my server has had
> FF open for at least a couple of weeks so far. I use it much as you
> mention elsewhere - lots of "I'll get round to looking at that" type
> tabs open, and I just RDP onto it from wherever I happen to be when I
> have a few free minutes to read.
>
> On a related note, Thunderbird/Win whatever (XP, Vista and 7) is
> significantly less than stable and crashes at random intervals (probably
> related the the extensions I have installed).

Quite the opposite of my experience, then. For me, Firefox/Iceweasel goes
funny after about a week, while Thunderbird/Icedove runs uncomplainingly for
weeks on end—never experienced a crash so far.

Like I said, it’s probably due to the 64-bit Adobe Flash Player.

Re: Trembling Mouse
 

In message <hei5hd$kpd$1@news.albasani.net>, Richard wrote:

> Yes, firefox leaks memory like crazy and eventually screws up ...

Screwing up eventually yes, but I don’t think it leaks memory any more.

Re: Trembling Mouse
 

"Richard" <rich@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
news:hei5hd$kpd$1@news.albasani.net...
> Nik Coughlin wrote:
>> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote in message
>> news:heghj2$19d$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>>> In message <hegelu$dg$2@aioe.org>, EMB wrote:
>>>
>>>> You could try using Firefox on ... Windows 7 (where I do
>>>> not see the issue you are describing) ...
>>>
>>> How long do you leave it running at a time?
>>
>> Just out of curiousity, why do you leave your browser running all the
>> time? It only takes a second or two to start up again.
>
> Yes, but not to open the 40-50 tabs I have sitting there which I will get
> around to reading one day soon...

40-50 tabs? Hahaha have you considered bookmarks?

> Why should I not be able to leave it running all the time. Yes, firefox
> leaks memory like crazy and eventually screws up, but I shouldnt have to
> adapt my usage to accomodate for long standing issues in the browser, they
> should be fixed.

Yeah, they should. No argument there.

Re: Trembling Mouse
 

Nik Coughlin wrote:
> "Richard" <rich@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:hei5hd$kpd$1@news.albasani.net...
>> Nik Coughlin wrote:
>>> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote in
>>> message news:heghj2$19d$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>>>> In message <hegelu$dg$2@aioe.org>, EMB wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You could try using Firefox on ... Windows 7 (where I do
>>>>> not see the issue you are describing) ...
>>>>
>>>> How long do you leave it running at a time?
>>>
>>> Just out of curiousity, why do you leave your browser running all the
>>> time? It only takes a second or two to start up again.
>>
>> Yes, but not to open the 40-50 tabs I have sitting there which I will
>> get around to reading one day soon...
>
> 40-50 tabs? Hahaha have you considered bookmarks?

Yes, but that doesnt help when pages are within search result frames
from google images etc very well. I just leave them there till I get
around to dealing with it.

Killing FF and opening it again will get them back

>> Why should I not be able to leave it running all the time. Yes,
>> firefox leaks memory like crazy and eventually screws up, but I
>> shouldnt have to adapt my usage to accomodate for long standing issues
>> in the browser, they should be fixed.
>
> Yeah, they should. No argument there.