FC13 Firefox hangs system on Downloads

coffee412 · #1 2nd June 2010, 02:59 PM

Just upgraded from FC11 to 13 a few days ago and came across a wierd problem with firefox. When downloading files thru firefox, Firefox starts consuming more and more memory/cpu cycles until the system hangs. This only happens when downloading thru firefox. Doesnt take too long either. Otherwise everything else works fine.

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Linux coffee.athome.net 2.6.33.4-95.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 13 05:16:23 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

firefox-3.6.3-4.fc13.x86_64

Has anyone else ran into this issue?

coffee

CSchwangler · #2 3rd June 2010, 09:40 AM

I am using F13 Gnome 64 bit and didn't notice this problem. What desktop environment are you using? Does that happen with every download, i.e. is that problem reproducible?

jkissane · #3 3rd June 2010, 10:04 AM

Similarly works for me with the same set-up. I did a clean install rather than an upgrade so maybe something went wrong there. Maybe worth removing Firefox & re-installing it?

coffee412 · #4 3rd June 2010, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by jkissane

Similarly works for me with the same set-up. I did a clean install rather than an upgrade so maybe something went wrong there. Maybe worth removing Firefox & re-installing it?

Ok, Got serious with this problem last night late. I download recordings tru my mythweb thats why it bugs me so.

I ran firfox in save mode (firefox --safe-mode) and had no problem at all downloading. Infact, I was only using something like 15 cpu / 8 mem according to top. So, I went in and uninstalled a bunch of extensions in firefox and it has seemed to fix the problem. Now when I download a large file Im seeing 35 cpu / 8 mem in top for the firefox process.

I dont know which extension was causing the problem though.

Thanks for the reply's

coffee