On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 05:29:07PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote
After an hour of waiting for "quit" to finish, I gave up and killed it.
| From: self_same_self@yahoo.com
| What kind of plugins do you have?
Nothing much. No flash, for example.
The scariest is IcedTea (Java). I don't know how to tell if Java is actually being run.
The real culprit is likely javascript -- not a plugin.
| How many tabs and windows?
Lots. 28 windows. It isn't convenient to count the tabs (I'd have to visit each of the windows and count the tabs).
A few items... * As others have pointed out, the Java plugin is a major security hole, a cross-platform equivalant of Active-X. Remove, or disable the plugin. * As I pointed out on June 22nd, I've gone hog wild with creating separate profiles for websites I often visit. Here's a snippet from my ~/.icewm/menu file that sets up part of the launchbar... menu WEBsets firefox { prog DSLR firefox /usr/bin/firefox -new-instance -P dslreports prog GLICE firefox /usr/bin/firefox -new-instance -P glice prog GCL firefox /usr/bin/firefox -new-instance -P gcl prog GRAPHS firefox /usr/bin/firefox -new-instance -P graphs prog HFBOARDS firefox /usr/bin/firefox -new-instance -P hfboards prog SLASHSOY firefox /usr/bin/firefox -new-instance -P slashsoy prog SNOW firefox /usr/bin/firefox -new-instance -P snow prog STREAMS firefox /usr/bin/firefox -new-instance -P streams prog WXFORUM firefox /usr/bin/firefox -new-instance -P wxforum prog WXSHORT firefox /usr/bin/firefox -new-instance -P wxshort prog WXLONG firefox /usr/bin/firefox -new-instance -P wxlong prog WUWT firefox /usr/bin/firefox -new-instance -P wuwt prog YOUTUBE firefox /usr/bin/firefox -new-instance -P youtube } If you run "top" in a really wide term (e.g. 120 or 130 columns), you can see breakdowns for which instance is using how much resources. This can help you determine which websites are the problem. *IMPORTANT* This will only work if the command lines differ from each other. Specifying a profile name is sufficient. Here's the drill... 1) Set up a wide term, at least 120, if not 130 columns wide 2) Run "top -c" in the term. Alternately, you can run "top" and then tap the "c" key to toggle *FULL* commandline display on/off. 3) Tap the "o" key (lowercase "owe") for case-insensitive filtering. Uppercase "O" selects case-sensitive filtering. 4) You'll be prompted like so add filter #1 (ignoring case) as: [!]FLD?VAL 5) Type in the following line exactly and press {ENTER} COMMAND=firefox This will match any line containing the substring "firefox" as part of the commandline. Note that if you prefix it with "!", the filter will show every line *NOT* containg "firefox" in the commandline. i.e. !COMMAND=firefox You'll get something resembling the output in my attachment, which is rather wide. Then you can see which instance is using how much resources. -- Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>