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I have been contributing to the Grid since 2005. If I leave Firefox running and unattended for a significant amount of time (lunch break, etc.), it crashes and restarts with a message. After a lot of checks, I suspended my BOINC tasks and the crashing stopped. I would like to continue my contributions but without Firefox crashes. Is there a known solution.
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twilyth
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I was having a lot of problems with firefox recently too. It would be horribly slow and sometimes crash.
----------------------------------------What finally fixed the problem was doing a reset. This will remove all of your addons which are the most likely culprits so you might want to make a note of your most important ones before you do this. I would also backup my bookmarks but those remained intact when I did it. Go to the menu and click on help then troubleshooting info. There are some options here you can try but to reset firefox, click on the reset button near the upper right. Then go back and reinstall your favorite plugins. The difference was astounding and may fix your problem. ![]() ![]() |
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Check if firefox continues to eat cpu time when minimized or in background. It is known to keep adding memory use when sitting there with tabs open and active content to the point that something has to go, in which case the browser is the lesser stable. Crashes for me every other day anyhow on tablet and computer. One gigabyte of use is not unknown for this application. Right now mine is eating 570mb, but not using time when in background i.e. not growing.
----------------------------------------How much ram does your system have and how many boinc tasks are you running concurrent? Also how much virtual memory is allowed? The agent crashing other apps is circumstantial. Boinc runs in a sandboxed shared memory block for security, to shield your user applications from boinc, but if a big task or tasks come along it will push for it, which means idle application memory use will be pushed off into virtual memory. Set the agent to limited memory allowance during use and idle and one or more tasks will pause if that limit is hit but only. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 1, 2014 9:00:37 AM] |
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......................Is there a known solution. Yes, use Chrome ![]() |
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twilyth
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Chrome is a better browser since as I understand things, it uses sandboxing. Even IE uses this now but Firefox doesn't. However most plugins don't work the same in Chrome as they do in FF, maybe because of this aspect of the browser. So that's the main reason I stick with FF. Also, a lot of the less common plugins don't have an equivalent in Chrome and I luvs me some plugins . . . uhh, that didn't really come out right.
----------------------------------------![]() edit: About what lavaflow said concerning memory limits. That's what I do. I have 16gig on an i7-2600k and I have to set the memory percentage when the computer is in use to between 1 and 2% to keep a couple of threads free while I'm on the machine. That definitely helps. ![]() ![]() [Edit 1 times, last edit by twilyth at May 1, 2014 10:25:17 AM] |
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......................Is there a known solution. Yes, use Chrome ![]() Chrome is just another reason to migrate away from Firefox. ![]() |
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