Firefox starts going slow then crashes.

Anyone or just me?

[dmorison]

Running Firefox 0.9.3 on Mandrake Linux/KDE desktop; and I find that after some intense browsing activity it will really start to struggle with forms.

For example, if you click to try and give focus to a form field the cursor will be along about 4 seconds later. Once it gets itself into that state; any form on any website becomes a struggle.

If you then exit Firefox once it has got into this state the crash handler launches.

Anyone else seeing this? The same version of Firefox is fine under WinXP.

[Robino]

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[encyclo]

Yes, I'm running 0.9.3 on Mandrake 9.1 with XFCE 4 as the window manager, and this happens regularly (not just with forms - the whole thing starts to get bogged down on occasion). It rarely crashes completely, though - I just kill the application when the problem starts, and it usually churns a bit then quits gracelessly with a lot of hard-drive activity.

I get the idea there's a memory leak in the Linux version somewhere.