Hello,
I have been using Firefox for some time now. I found out that after a few hours of use, it would run very slowly, and not just the program, but my whole computer would run slowly. I could get things back to normal if I just quit the program and restart it.

I sought out some help in my distro's set up IRC room, and they said that it runs slowly because Firefox has a memory leak. They recommended I try another browser. So now I'm using Galeon, which I've been told, is tied very smoothly with the Gnome that comes wiith my Ubuntu.

Anyway, I'd like to make Galeon have the following traits:


a) Make Galeon open up mailto links in the web version of gmail compose screen.

b) When running fullscreen mode, the status bar hides away (default), which is the way I like it. But in this mode, is there a way to get the selected hyperlink showing what URL is being pointed at?

c) I tried remapping the "Go Back" command to Backspace, just like in Firefox and IE, but when I'm in a textbox, the backspace key can't function normally. Is there a way we can have Galeon smarten up?

d) How can we have the spinner/throbber (on the upper-right hand corner of the program) opens up whatever website we want, rather than http://galeon.sourceforge.net/?

e) make the tab close on middle-button click (ala Firefox). This would therefore obviate the "X" on the tabs

f)make new tab open on doubleclick in free space ((like Firefox)

g) undo close tab on middleclick in free space (like a tab extension for Firefox)

h)search through all text in webpage, and not just links, when i start typing

i) have fullscreen really be full screen (no toolbars, address bar)

j) Is there a way to have Ctrl-Tab cycle through tabs (like Opera)?

i) making irc:// links a protocol that Galeon recognizes. I'd like Galeon to open up Xchat for me with the selected chatroom

thank you for your help!

I don't know about Galeon, but here's something about stopping the memory leak in Firefox:
http://fusion94.org/archives/2005/07...ox_memory.html

This talks about memory leaks in the Flash plugin. I would be very surprised if the stable branch of Firefox had memory leaks in the browser itself.

Memory leak? Isn't a memory leak is when after a while you use a program, it just gets slower and slower. A bug in a game I play has a huge memory leak problem (they're working on it).

sort-of. A memory leak is when a program keeps on allocating more memory, but without freeing it when it's finished using it.

So while the program is running, the amount of available free memory on the system decreases. If the amount of free memory becomes low enough, then this will start your system swapping memory out to disk, which will normally slow it down, unless the program does a lot of I/O to hide the swapping. A music player, for example, keeps on waiting for the sound card to output sound. While it's waiting, the system can be writing data from RAM to disk to free up RAM quite happily, without slowing down the music player which would have waited anyway.

So it is possible to have a program that has a memory leak but doesn't keep slowing down, depending on the setup of your system. The main problem with memory leaks is that, sooner or later, the program will eat up all the memory on the system, causing it (or possibly something else on the system) to get an out of memory error, which normally makes the program crash.

thanks for the link rjlee

rjlee -- Thanks!; I'm thinking of trying Firefox also -- glad to know that one!!

rgh.