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[Discuss] Mozilla freeze ups



So far all is well. Although I've been using chrome as my default
browser all morning, I have not seen an issue except for clickable
links. I also have not seem Thunderbird freeze up yet today.

One problem though. When I clikc on a link in Thunderbird, it still
brings up firefox. In Thunderbird, Preferences/Config editor I have
network.protocol-handler.app.http and network.protocol-handler.app.https
set to /usr/bin/google-chrome
In Gnome3 I have settings/system Info/Default Apps set to Google Chrome.
There is a relevant bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760644
'xdg-open http://fedoraproject.org' successfully opens a tab in Chrome.
I've changed some settings in the gconf-editor also, but no change.
Currently I have not gone through all the Google searches. One solution
was to uninstall firefox, which I did, but that did not solve the
problem. Clicking a link with firefox uninstalled simply did not work.
Somehow I'm missing something.



On 05/26/2012 09:30 AM, Jack Coats wrote:
> On Google Chrome, I have had a problem with it 'over consuming' my machine.
>
> The fix was two parts.
>
> In Settings, under "Background Apps", to turn off the "continue
> running background apps when Google Chrome is closed"
> When starting Google Chrome, in the shortcut, for the command:
>    /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --process-per-tab %U
>
> Since I have obtained a newer (but used) laptop (Lenovo T61), and it
> has a bit more horsepower.  It works smoother with the default Chrome
> settings, but I still do turn off the background processes when Chrome
> is closed.  I am not sure if this precludes Google Cloud Print from
> working or not, but if it does, it is only on your 'printer server'
> machine, so not using this option there makes sense.
>
> I found that on my old machine (Dell Latitude D600), if I ran Hulu, at
> times a second audio stream that was no where near synchronized with
> the display would run, sometimes even when the display process was
> canceled. ... Quite annoying.
>
>


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