[geeks] WTF - Linux on a laptop...

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 09:23:20AM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 09:30:35AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > True, but the downside of that is, at the moment Firefox 0.8 appears to
> > be very usable on Windows but not ready for prime time on Linux.  On my
> > machine at least (Athlon XP1800+ with half a gig of DDR333 RAM running a
> > Slackware-based custom install), Firefox becomes unresponsive (and the
> > mouse becomes unresponsive when in Firefox's window) for up to about 30
> > seconds when loading URLs.
> 
> These might help: (tips on tuning/optimizing firebird/firefox)
> 
> http://www.farrokhi.net/blog/archives/000235.html
> 
> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650&highlight=

Those help somewhat.

The big problem for me is it seems that I need to exit and restart
firebird from time to time because it gets slower and slower the longer
it runs (over a period of days).

I'd be much happier if it would allow me to just run multiple instances
of it easily (rather than having to deal with multiple accounts and
piping the display, etc,etc).