Comments on Firefox 2.0.3 ... Mines hangs then regains its composure after about 2 solid minutes of being stuck in hell. Did nothing to Opera on Windows, OpenBSD or Linux... Seemed to also toast out Firefox on FC5. Caused system to respond horribly. [root@linuxbox ~]# yum update firefox Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories core [1/3] ..... --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for firefox to pack into transaction set. firefox-1.5.0.10-1.fc5.i3 100% |=========================| 82 kB 00:00 ---> Package firefox.i386 0:1.5.0.10-1.fc5 set to be updated --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Updating: firefox i386 1.5.0.10-1.fc5 updates 18 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 0 Package(s) Update 1 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 18 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/1): firefox-1.5.0.10-1 100% |=========================| 18 MB 01:27 Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Updating : firefox ######################### [1/2] Cleanup : firefox ######################### [2/2] Updated: firefox.i386 0:1.5.0.10-1.fc5 Complete! Copied and pasted top information ... Took me 3 minutes to actually copy and paste the information... Tasks: 118 total, 1 running, 116 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 73.7% us, 25.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 1.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1034412k total, 1019464k used, 14948k free, 1600k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 317436k used, 1714172k free, 41184k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 27474 root 18 0 1178m 838m 17m D 1.0 83.0 0:21.43 firefox-bin [root@linuxbox ~]# killall -9 firefox-bin firefox-bin: no process killed [root@linuxbox ~]# killall -9 firefox-bin [root@linuxbox ~]# Killed it once... Nope... System didn't even acknowledge it. Stood running for a few seconds till I killall -9'd it again. Damn you firefox! -- ==================================================== J. Oquendo http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x1383A743sil . infiltrated @ net http://www.infiltrated.net
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