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Posted: April 28 2005,16:22

I have installed Firefox 1.0.3 (GTK2) both from the myDSL test area and with the installer from the official German Mozilla website. With both variants I have the same problems:

1. Special characters like [{\~²³}] cannot be typed in (this ones I have copied out of Beaver ;-). So editing on Wikipedia gets hard work due to the need of those special characters!

2. When going backward with the cursor (to correct a written word for example), and going forward again, the cursor sometimes stops in front of the last letter. So sometimes it is not possible to go to the very end of a line (only when using the end button or the mouse).

3. After surfing the web for, lets say for 2 hours, the browser gets extremely slow. Even google.com needs many many seconds until the (small) site is loaded! When making a click everything lasts extremely long. Then it's like having a 10.0 Mhz computer. My hardware is minimum requirement: 233 Mhz and 64 MB RAM. But this cannot be the reason, because on Win98 the Firefox 1.0.3 browser works fine on the same PC! What may cause this slow down after some hours? --- Melancholie

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Posted: April 28 2005,21:14

On point3, my vague guess is something to do with cache - with your win install you would have your cache on HD, but (if you are using liveCD?) the cache would be entirely in RAM under DSL, so your cache would be getting full (reaching the maximum memory), don't know exactly what would happen then, but the symptoms sound right to me. I think.
You'd also have more stuff in ram for the general running of DSL. Don't know how ram useage would compare to an install of win98, but I'm guessing due to the nature of how liveCD's work that DSL's useage would be more?

Maybe you could try going into the firefox settings and changing the cache size to something lower? Or creating a dos swapfile (do a search on the forum, I've never tried it...)?
Or clearing the cache when things start going slow?

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ke4nt1

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Posted: April 29 2005,02:13

Yep,
Thadda be my guess too..

Select "Edit > Preferences" in your firefox menubar

Choose "Privacy", and click on the little + near the word cache.
Set the cache for a smaller number, like 100k .

Also, select "History" , and select a fewer number of days.

See if that helps with the buildup and slowdown of your system.

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Posted: April 30 2005,23:13

RE 3 again, here's something mikshaw just wrote in another thread (mp3s using up RAM, or something like that)

"Take Firefox for example. If its cache is set to 50mb it will continue to write to that cache until it uses 50mb. If you don't have 50mb of free ram for the Firefox cache, the RAM will get used up. Since this is a file cache the system will not free it up automatically....it will smother."

So Firefox will attempt to keep writing to RAM up to the amount that cache has been set to, even if there is not that amount of RAM free. So the system chokes. Change your cache figure and you should see improvements.

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firecat53
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Posted: May 09 2005,04:50

I've also tried 1.0.3 in both the tar.gz and uci versions and had them freeze after a short time of use. I reset the cache to a value well within the available RAM (256mb machine with not much else running). It mostly happened when I used any java applications (using the 1_0_5 dsl version), but not always. I waited a couple of minutes a few times before I had to turn off the machine.

Anyone else having issues with 1.0.3 locking up or waaaay slowing down?

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