Breezy upgrade: Firefox cpu problem

[Olafur Arason]

Try changin your version to dapper then updating firefox if it doesn't take
to many packages with it the change back to breezy.

Olafur Arason
2005/11/24, Florence Berbain <fberbain at xs4all.nl>:
> Hi all,
>
> A few days ago I upgraded a spare computer from Hoary to Breezy. The
> upgrade seemed to go ok, however the machine is now very sluggish. The
> problem seems to come from Firefox: whenever I launch Firefox, top
> reports it's eating up 90% CPU or more (this happens as soon as Firefox
> is started, and not after several hours/days of use as I've seen people
> report in other threads). It uses 7% of the memory.
>
> Otherwise, the machine behaves normally (that is, as I remember it did
> under Hoary, even though I haven't used it since last June. But I'm
> certain I was able then to run Firefox, Thunderbird, and emacs at the
> same time with no problems at all). The machine is a P3 550 Mhz with
> 784M RAM, shouldn't that be plenty enough for Breezy (with Gnome)?
>
> I uninstalled and reinstalled firefox in synaptic, with no result.
>
> BTW do I need the packages firefox-gnome-support (I am using Gnome) and
> mozilla-firefox?
>
> Thanks for ideas,
> Florence
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