15 Apr
2011
15 Apr
'11
6:55 p.m.
On 15/04/11 07:30, Eric Smith wrote:
On 04/14/2011 06:38 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
I think it's just GNOME's Gconf configuration database and the MIME-type
translations getting filled with junk. That and my Firefox user profile
-- I traced part of the slowdown to a misbehaving Firefox extension, and
another part of it to a Greasemonkey script which was forcing refreshes
every couple of minutes.
Also, Firefox really doesn't like it when you have four windows open,
with ~30 tabs open in each window...
I've been trying to switch to Chrome + Evolution, but Thunderbird has a
neat extension called "Correct Identity" which I use a lot. Essentially,
it hooks the "send mail" function and makes sure messages to mailing
lists have the correct From: address. In 20 minutes of using Evo, I had
an inbox full of bouncebacks, and a snarky email from a listadmin...
Now I end up wiping and reinstalling Ubuntu (or
at least
obliterating ~/ ) every six months or so.
That's odd; I wonder what's
doing that to you. I'm using a different
Linux distribution, and used its predecessors going back to 1995, and
never have had that kind of thing happen. (I'm not mentioning it by name
as I'm not claiming that it's better and I'm not trying to start a
thread on the merits of various Linux distributions.)
I'm actually toying with the idea of having a play with Debian and one
of the non-GNOME Ubuntu variants. Kubuntu is nice, but KDE4 is a bit too
'Windows-7-y' for my liking. Xubuntu is next on my "Linux distros to
try" list, though I'm not sure how I'll get on with the somewhat
minimalist Xfce...
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/