Justin Kremer:<br>
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> I don't know of anything quite like you describe, but could you just<br>
> leave a terminal running top in the background for a while? Top uses<br>
> very small amounts of resources when left running in Linux. Or you<br>
> could make a cron job to run a script that uses ps, searches for<br>
> firefox processes and check their CPU usage...and e-mail you or<br>
> something if it gets over 20% or so.<br><br>I don't pay attention to top if I leave it running all the time.<br>By the time I notice some lag, I've probably changed 10 of my <br>tabs to new websites and I'm not positive which one is eating<br>
using up the resources.<br><br>
> Conky or GKrellm might have a pretty GUI to show the same thing. But<br>
> beauty is in the eye of the beholder.<br>
> Another rather different (and possibly undesirable) option is to<br>
> temporarily switch to Chrome or Chromium and see if you still run into<br>
> resource issues. If you do, it creates a separate process for each<br>
> tab, so you can more easily isolate which tab is misbehaving. A<br>
> couple downsides are that you would have to switch browsers and<br>
> configure Chrome to your liking, and also Chrome tends to use more<br>
> resources than Firefox because of its process isolation...the very<br>
> thing that makes it desirable for debugging an issue like this. It<br>> might be worth a shot, though.<br><br>I've thought about using Chrome, but haven't installed a recent<br>version. <br><br><br>-- <br>
Brian Wood<br>Ebenezer Enterprises<br><a href="http://webEbenezer.net" target="_blank">http://webEbenezer.net</a><br><br><br><br><br><br>