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On 06/01/14 22:13, Rob Beard wrote: > Mint just works for me (Mint Debian Edition at the moment). Generally it > runs okay, can be a CPU hog at times if I have loads of tabs open (say 50 > to 100 or so). On occasion my machine starts to run at a crawl and I just > reboot it :-) > > That's on a 5.5 year old Core 2 Duo 2Ghz laptop with 4GB Ram and onboard > Intel graphics. Well, rebooting is guaranteed to fix it but seems like a bit of a blunt tool... to put it mildly. Wouldn't just killing or re-nicing the runaway process/processes be a better idea? Presuming you're talking about flash on Firefox, which is admittedly a known memory hog in certain scenarios, you could also update Firefox to a nightly build and set browser.tabs.remote to true in about:config. This is the experimental "Electrolysis" feature which is Mozilla's long overdue implementation of sandboxed tabs, which Chrome and IE have had for a while. The advantage is you can simply kill the memory-sucking tab(s) running Flash whilst leaving your other 50-100 (!!) tabs still open, without having to even restart Firefox, let alone the entire computer. Regards https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq