[Cialug] Web Slowing Down

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

I use the Gmail web client and find i can keep it open for more than a 
week. With Firefox 2, much more than a week though and Firefox' memory 
usage was well over 1 GB and the browser would be very sluggish. 
Restarting the browser would restore it to normal. Usually i'd restart 
FF 2 every 3-4 days. With Firefox 3 i can usually go 1-2 weeks between 
browser restarts.

I do notice, however, that with Gmail open i get a "xulrunner-bin" 
process running constantly and using whatever free CPU is available. I 
have no idea what that process is doing. If i close the Gmail tab the 
process continues running but stops using an easily measurable amount 
of CPU. I wonder if Google has figured out a javascript implementation 
of SETI at home or Folding at home or some other *@home project and is 
running it whenever someone uses Gmail.

On 2009-03-10 at 22:55:28, Andrew Denner wrote:
>As for Gmail, there is no reason that you need gmail open 24-7, just
> use IMAP and a real client same for the IM.  I find that if I leave
> gmail up for more then a couple of days I will get the "the script on
> the page has stopped responding" errors.

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