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    MX7525 - using firefox while using media player

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by daous, Feb 24, 2006.

  1. daous

    daous Newbie

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    Anyone having "lag" issues with media players (e.g. windows media player) while running other light applications such as firefox on the MX7525? I haven't had this sorta problem before with my other computers...

    Is this "normal"? For a 64-bit 2.6 GHz processor, this doesn't seem right..
     
    daous, Feb 24, 2006
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  2. Uscooper

    Uscooper Notebook Consultant

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    mine only "lags" for like 2 seconds after i use the scroll bar to scroll thru 8 gigs of music, and it takes like 2 seconds adn then its all there, no lag
     
    Uscooper, Feb 24, 2006
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  3. Hellmanns

    Hellmanns Notebook Evangelist

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    -Your FireFox probably has a memory leak. Open the task manager and tell us how much ram it is using..
    [Mine takes about 40mb average (3-4 tabs; 1 window), and 30mb for winamp (the programs that I first open when I start up). I am happy to report no lag whatsoever :D]

    -Background processes are taking CPU. Close unneeded programs
    [I am currently running 36 processes, was once down to 20]

    Those are the only two plausible causes that I can think of at the moment.
    Good luck!
     
    Hellmanns, Feb 24, 2006
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  4. Uscooper

    Uscooper Notebook Consultant

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    firefox reported that that isnt actually a memory leak, its a built in feature that caches the last few used web pages
     
    Uscooper, Feb 24, 2006
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  5. Hellmanns

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    Hmm, I didn't know that,
    Heh, thanks :)
     
    Hellmanns, Feb 24, 2006
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    mach_zero Casual Observer NBR Reviewer

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    If you're using FF 1.5 you might try upgrading to 1.5.0.1. That fixed a lot of the stability issues and "lag" from the caching that 1.5 was causing me.
     
    mach_zero, Feb 24, 2006
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    daous Newbie

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    I am using the latest version (1.5.0.1). The problem seems goes away after installing video codecs (yay!).

    Thanks for the help everyone!
     
    daous, Feb 25, 2006
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