[Tfug] Debian Firefox Youtube Slow

[Charles R. Kiss]

If I have about four or five, or so, tabs sequentially opened, in 
Firefox, by Youtube, the videos start loading, not simultaneously, but 
one after another, say over a period of one minute, and things quickly 
become very slow.   And if I wait, and wait, and perhaps open another 
tab, things get even slower to the point of alomost comepletely hanging 
-even though most, if not all, tabs have had their videos completely 
played, or deliberately paused (in an experimental and hypothetical 
effort to "speed things up").  And even if all tabs have had their 
videos completely played, this situation is not to be recovered from 
lightly, but continues to drag on in some way.   "top" shows upto 90%+ 
firefox-bin, at times.  This doesn't happen, not even by a very small 
fraction, in my Macbook (dualcore). What's going on??

house:~# uname -a
Linux house 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed May 9 22:23:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux


I used to get a "Software Update Failed" after each opening of Firefox.  
A window would first appear, with the words:

"One or more files could not be updated.  Please make sure all other 
applications are closed and that you have permission to modify files, 
and then restart Firefox to try again."

I Clicked [OK] (no other choice) and the browser would open.



If I remember correctly I intalled Firefox using a tarball, not using an 
apt source.



I think I chmoded 777 -R /home/charles/.mozilla  and chowned charles -R 
/usr/bin/firefox  (is this secure??)  and ls -l checked everything, and 
in some other places (maybe), just to make sure things were very open 
for updates.  And, after reboot, no longer got the "Software Update 
Failure" notice.

But Firefox is definitely still acting very slow in YouTube, (and maybe 
some other video storage sites -I'm not sure).  Sometime back, I also 
got a return email indicating some spoofing (at best), and I've been at 
some pretty bad sites.  Is this behavior normal?  

My root and /home partitions are at least 20% free, with 1GB RAM, and at 
least 1GB Swap (alot, I know).

Any ideas how I can fix this problem?  


Charles