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I’ve been running Firefox/Iceweasel continuously for 5 days, and this
evening it started exhibiting a little bit of hesitancy in responding to
clicks. Previously this has got quite bad when I’ve left it for longer.

So, nip it in the bud: quit and relaunch. All nice and smooth again.

"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <_zealand> wrote in message
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> I’ve been running Firefox/Iceweasel continuously for 5 days,

switch it off and go to bed
..

On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:32:00 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> I’ve been running Firefox/Iceweasel continuously for 5 days, and this
> evening it started exhibiting a little bit of hesitancy in responding to
> clicks. Previously this has got quite bad when I’ve left it for longer.
>
> So, nip it in the bud: quit and relaunch. All nice and smooth again.

Why on earth would you want to be running a web browser for such a long time as that??

Surely you would look at a website and when you're done simply close the browser until the next time
you need to look at a website?


--
"Filtering the Internet is like trying to boil the ocean"

In message <>, Sweetpea wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:32:00 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> I’ve been running Firefox/Iceweasel continuously for 5 days, and this
>> evening it started exhibiting a little bit of hesitancy in responding to
>> clicks. Previously this has got quite bad when I’ve left it for longer.
>>
>> So, nip it in the bud: quit and relaunch. All nice and smooth again.
>
> Why on earth would you want to be running a web browser for such a long
> time as that??

Why on earth would I want to keep quitting it all the time?

> Surely you would look at a website and when you're done simply close the
> browser until the next time you need to look at a website?

But I’m ALWAYS looking at websites. I have pages open for days on end.
Documentation pages, news pages, wiki pages, you name it.

"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <_zealand> wrote in message
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> I’ve been running Firefox/Iceweasel continuously for 5 days,
>

LOL, I know I'd get a hardon if I ran FF continuously for 5 days.


>But I’m ALWAYS looking at websites. I have pages open for days on end.
>Documentation pages, news pages, wiki pages, you name it.

Sad.... no, pathetic.

On 2010-02-16, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <_zealand> wrote:
> In message <>, Sweetpea wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:32:00 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> I’ve been running Firefox/Iceweasel continuously for 5 days, and this
>>> evening it started exhibiting a little bit of hesitancy in responding to
>>> clicks. Previously this has got quite bad when I’ve left it for longer.
>>>
>>> So, nip it in the bud: quit and relaunch. All nice and smooth again.
>>
>> Why on earth would you want to be running a web browser for such a long
>> time as that??
>
> Why on earth would I want to keep quitting it all the time?
>
>> Surely you would look at a website and when you're done simply close the
>> browser until the next time you need to look at a website?
>
> But I’m ALWAYS looking at websites. I have pages open for days on end.
> Documentation pages, news pages, wiki pages, you name it.

Nevertheless, I shall ask the question. Are you reading them while they are
open?

Sweetpea wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:32:00 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> I’ve been running Firefox/Iceweasel continuously for 5 days, and this
>> evening it started exhibiting a little bit of hesitancy in responding to
>> clicks. Previously this has got quite bad when I’ve left it for longer.
>>
>> So, nip it in the bud: quit and relaunch. All nice and smooth again.
>
> Why on earth would you want to be running a web browser for such a long time as that??
>
> Surely you would look at a website and when you're done simply close the browser until the next time
> you need to look at a website?

Google reader, gmail, twitter, all stay open in tabs that I look at
frequently.

Why should I have to close an app and reopen it to have it start doing
the same thing it was doing before but at an acceptable speed.

This reminds me of the old days where you had to reboot a windows
machine weekly to keep it working properly.

In message <>, Gordon wrote:

> On 2010-02-16, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <_zealand>
> wrote:
>> In message <>, Sweetpea wrote:
>>
>>> Surely you would look at a website and when you're done simply close the
>>> browser until the next time you need to look at a website?
>>
>> But I’m ALWAYS looking at websites. I have pages open for days on end.
>> Documentation pages, news pages, wiki pages, you name it.
>
> Nevertheless, I shall ask the question. Are you reading them while they
> are open?

Bit difficult to do it when they’re not.

In message <>, Cima wrote:

> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <_zealand> wrote in message
> news:hldomg$h2s$...
>
>>But IÂ’m ALWAYS looking at websites. I have pages open for days on end.
>>Documentation pages, news pages, wiki pages, you name it.
>
> Sad.... no, pathetic.

Only if you’re not getting a profit out of it.

On 17/02/2010 6:10 p.m., Richard wrote:

> This reminds me of the old days where you had to reboot a windows
> machine weekly to keep it working properly.

It sounds like Larry's linux box has graduated to needing a weekly
fingering to stay stable.