On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:46:53 -0500, Clint Harshaw wrote:
Beartooth wrote:
> I used galeon for years, till it began to get slow, and went back to it
> when firefox did. My browsers typically run faster when newly updated,
> and slow gradually down; if I can, I keep galeon, opera, and firefox
> all open
This seems odd -- are you regularly clearing out the cache?
Errr... Duhhhh.... and also Blither. Also Damn. That's one thing I keep
forgetting -- partly because I'm a packrat, and shirk it. I wish the
browsers would let you see how much you have, or otherwise thin out,
without having to edit a file manually, line by line.
I did it just now, and both Opera and Firefox do seem faster. But there's
a cost. The browser no longer keeps track, on the web forums I follow,
which posts I've read and which I haven't.
I haven't ever experienced the gradual slowing down you describe,
but I
hope we can find a solution to your issue. Have you tried strace on any
of the browsers to see if there is some output that could be helpful
there for troubleshooting?
=====
[root@localhost btth]# strace opera
-bash: strace: command not found
[root@localhost btth]#
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So I checked :
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[root@localhost root]# man strace
No manual entry for strace
[root@localhost root]# rpm -q strace
package strace is not installed
[root@localhost root]#
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I had barely, if ever heard of strace. I did try google
linux, and found a long but seemingly readable exposition at
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/strace.1.html
I'm not entirely clear on this desktop setup -- are you really
saying
that you have at lease three browsers open at all times, each with 10-20
pages being rendered? So at any time, there are at least between 30 and
60 different web pages being actively displayed?
Not at all. On my panel is a workspace switcher with six boxes. Each one,
when clicked on, gives me what amounts to a fresh desktop, or at least
looks like one. One for my terminal, doing email and administrative stuff;
one for each browser; one for my newsreader; and one with a terminal using
a special profile -- a font small enough to make man pages format
properly. And, of course, with tabs each browser only actually displays
one site at a time, if any; the chief benefits of tabbing, to me at least,
are that I can close a browser with unread sites open, and have them still
there next time; and that I can open my weather and forum sites more or
less simultaneously, without chasing down a lot of bookmarks.
How much RAM are you running?
Well, I thought the hardware browser would check that for me, and it
doesn't. I had as much added as each machine would hold recently; I think
it's 512 on one and 384 on the other.
> I hit dependency hell trying to install galeon on my current
athlon FC1
> desktop, and just get along without it. Since the installation on the
> backup p2 still has a working galeon, I use it there.
Gnome's moved to epiphany for its browser, for reasons that I don't
recall, and I don't believe galeon comes with FC2. But there are
available rpm's for galeon (you should be able to grab the rpm from
Dag's site) that are compatible with moz 1.7.3.
Been there, tried that, alas! I installed mozilla into FC1, from the
Fedora Legacy site; galeon-1.3.14-0.a.rhfc1.dag.i386.rpm failed to
install; galeon-1.3.14-1.a.dmist.i386.rpm failed to install;
galeon-1.3.17-3.i386.rpm claimed to have installed -- but tries to open
when I click on the launcher, and then fails.
rpm -q mozilla gives mozilla-1.4.3-1.fc1.1.legacy
Have I gotten the wrong rpm from Dag, or ...??
Incidentally, I asked this also this morning on gmane's galeon list; no
reply there yet, either ...
--
Beartooth Autodidact, curmudgeonly codger learning linux
Remember I know precious little of what I'm talking about!