Comments on: sometimes things suck in awesome ways http://www.mushinnoshin.com/blog/archives/593 "I have nothing to say and I'm saying it" -- John Cage Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:26:33 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jon http://www.mushinnoshin.com/blog/archives/593/comment-page-1#comment-44472 Jon Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:57:56 +0000 http://www.mushinnoshin.com/blog/?p=593#comment-44472 Heh, yeah I've had open office do that a few times. In addition to seeing it do a good impersonation of a strobe light :) That's quite a recommendation for chromium, I'll definitely check out the crossover version. Heh, yeah I’ve had open office do that a few times. In addition to seeing it do a good impersonation of a strobe light :)

That’s quite a recommendation for chromium, I’ll definitely check out the crossover version.

]]> By: pulse http://www.mushinnoshin.com/blog/archives/593/comment-page-1#comment-44471 pulse Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:59:29 +0000 http://www.mushinnoshin.com/blog/?p=593#comment-44471 btw, i've had openoffice commandeer my entire x session before. NOTHING would fix it except for killing X and restarting it. it may be a bug in my window manager (fvwm), but the fact that openoffice has been the ONLY offender (and a repeat one at that) makes me think not. so consider yourself lucky that killing the process worked for you ;) btw, i’ve had openoffice commandeer my entire x session before. NOTHING would fix it except for killing X and restarting it. it may be a bug in my window manager (fvwm), but the fact that openoffice has been the ONLY offender (and a repeat one at that) makes me think not.

so consider yourself lucky that killing the process worked for you ;)

]]> By: pulse http://www.mushinnoshin.com/blog/archives/593/comment-page-1#comment-44470 pulse Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:55:53 +0000 http://www.mushinnoshin.com/blog/?p=593#comment-44470 sorry, i meant about:config, not about:cache, though the about:cache window does have some interesting statistics. again, chromium has a near-perfect architecture, has never crashed, and has consistently lower memory usage than firefox. my chrome instance has been open for several days, seen tons of tabs and, with 3 current tabs, is only using 88M. in sharp contrast is the firefox instance i've just opened and, currently only viewing the about:config and about:cache tabs, is already using 53M. did i mention that, with chromium, if one page has some javascript that goes wonkers and eats the page, it doesn't affect other tabs? chromium rocks. firefox sucks. the disparity is as great as that between firefox and internet explorer. it. is. simply. amazing. sorry, i meant about:config, not about:cache, though the about:cache window does have some interesting statistics.

again, chromium has a near-perfect architecture, has never crashed, and has consistently lower memory usage than firefox. my chrome instance has been open for several days, seen tons of tabs and, with 3 current tabs, is only using 88M. in sharp contrast is the firefox instance i’ve just opened and, currently only viewing the about:config and about:cache tabs, is already using 53M.

did i mention that, with chromium, if one page has some javascript that goes wonkers and eats the page, it doesn’t affect other tabs?

chromium rocks. firefox sucks. the disparity is as great as that between firefox and internet explorer. it. is. simply. amazing.

]]> By: pulse http://www.mushinnoshin.com/blog/archives/593/comment-page-1#comment-44469 pulse Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:46:32 +0000 http://www.mushinnoshin.com/blog/?p=593#comment-44469 while this should not affect clean instances of firefox, i do recommend that you set firefox's recent page cache to 0. by default, iirc, it caches the 8 most recent pages. i can't find the appropriate config option; it may have changed with firefox 3. there are a TON of preferences that you can modify in the about:cache window. check out: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Reducing_memory_usage_-_Firefox i doubt any of this is likely to address your weirdness, since it's been working just fine. honestly, though, i'd recommend you switch to google's chromium. while i don't believe the linux port of chromium works yet, the windows version works under wine: http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ports/chromium/ i haven't yet tried crossover chromium, so ymmv. since the beta of google chrome was released, i no longer use firefox. the days of the monolithic browser are over. unless mozilla and/or microsoft can quickly and efficiently convert to the model that chromium uses, google will own the browser market inside of 5 years. sorry, firefox, our time was sweet, but you grew fat and lazy. while this should not affect clean instances of firefox, i do recommend that you set firefox’s recent page cache to 0. by default, iirc, it caches the 8 most recent pages. i can’t find the appropriate config option; it may have changed with firefox 3.

there are a TON of preferences that you can modify in the about:cache window. check out: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Reducing_memory_usage_-_Firefox

i doubt any of this is likely to address your weirdness, since it’s been working just fine. honestly, though, i’d recommend you switch to google’s chromium. while i don’t believe the linux port of chromium works yet, the windows version works under wine: http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ports/chromium/

i haven’t yet tried crossover chromium, so ymmv.

since the beta of google chrome was released, i no longer use firefox. the days of the monolithic browser are over. unless mozilla and/or microsoft can quickly and efficiently convert to the model that chromium uses, google will own the browser market inside of 5 years.

sorry, firefox, our time was sweet, but you grew fat and lazy.

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