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Is it just me, or is firefox (3.5 on Ubuntu 9.10 karmic) really sluggish when opening the PHP.net website?

When I have several tabs open with just the PHP.net website, and I tab up and down (with Control-PageUp/Down), it's slow to change tab. If I do it quickly, then firefox freezes for a few seconds (I know because it goes grey, which is a compiz feature to show unresponsive windows). The CPU usage also goes up when I'm tabbing to PHP.net pages.

UPDATE: This appears to happen for all PHP.net webpages. For other pages, on other sites, Firefox is fine (for me).

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Did you try other pages outside of php.net? Firefox is a memory hog when many tabs are opened at the same time. At the end of my work day my Firefox is eating mb's up to 700mb of memory. I don't know if this is specific to phpm.net pages.

I'm using Firefox just for circunstances that need specific extensions (like Scrapbook for saving websites). For all other tasks I'm using Google Chrome.

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Yes, I use Firefox as my only browser, and other pages are fine by comparison – Rory Dec 10 at 15:28
Sounds to me like it could well be a problem with the site as opposed to the browser, but that'd require using another one to test it out. Haven't been over there recently, so I can't say specifically about any issues with the site. – Kaji Dec 13 at 13:11
I'll give a stronger comment than Kaji: it can not be caused by the site. Firefox is seeing HTML either way--PHP is executed on the server, not in the browser, and just sends HTML to the browser same as a static page. The particular site may be using some kind of HTML that confuses Firefox or one of your plugins. – CarlF Feb 14 at 5:02
Just out of curiosity, does it do this on the php.net mirrors, too? Try us.php.net for example - does it occur there as well? Are there any pages on the php.net site which it doesn't occur on? – nhinkle Feb 14 at 6:12

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