D&C GLug - Home Page

[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]

Re: [LUG] Odd Firefox + php.net behaviour

 

Wills Fidell wrote:
> All,
> 
> At first I thought this was my imagination, but it is definitely happening:
> 
> If I open up a php.net function manual page, say
> http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php,  in Firefox the cpu
> usage jumps to 99% for a period of a few seconds before the page finally
> loads, and there is a corresponding leap in memory usage too.  The
> effect is more than enough to cause annoyance.
> 
> However, it is not just requesting the page for the first time that does
> this.  Switching tabs from another site back to the php.net page does
> the same.  In my test, carried out as I write this email, switching tabs
> caused FF to hang for 12s.
> 
> I have also just noticed that if I hide FF and then return to it when
> the 'top' page is php.net the same thing happens
> 
> This does not effect any other sites that I have come across.
> 
> So does anybody have any ideas what is going on?
> 
> I am using Fedora 12, Gnome and FF 3.5.9
> 
> Cheers
> Wills
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
I have looked at this. I opened up your example page in FF and then
Google on another tab. It was all working very quickly, just as normal.
I do have FF 3.6.3.

Neil

-- 
The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG
http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list
FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html