Firefox crashed yesterday. It's become fat with age, and crashes and leaks
too often for my taste. At least it restores its windows and tabs
(sometimes even to the same desktop) they were on pre-crash.
Anyhow, since then, it's been exceedingly slow. I'm talking minutes to load
one tab and I have probably a hundred tabs. Every few minutes it throws up
the "script has stopped responding" dialog. That box doesn't show up on
XFCE's miniature desktop view, so I have to search for it if nothing's
happened for a while. It spends hours trying to come up, then crashes
partway through every time so far. I've brought down and up eth0, rebooted
the router (the router's a DNS server), changed the DNS server in
resolv.conf to the ISP ones, killed and relaunched FF, logged out of and
into X, and rebooted the computer(!) to no avail. I thought it was a lack
of free space either in {/var/log,/tmp} or in ~ but they have 6.9 GiB and
123 MiB free respectively. I suspect it was an update that FF didn't like.
Is there a history of what was changed with apt-get? Is anyone else having
this problem? What do you think's causing it? More importantly, what can I
do about it?
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