On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 10:44 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i am at my wit's end with firefox on my fedora rawhide system -- to
> say it's nad-grindingly slow would be charitable. just now, i tried
> clicking on another tab ... some 30 seconds later, i am still waiting
> for the tab to change, oh, wait, there it is.
>
> watching any sort of youtube video is excruciating ... while audio
> is typically, i will frequently get *maybe* one frame change a second,
> i kid you not. i frequently get javascripts that are not responding,
> and i'm asked whether i want to wait for them.
>
> is there *something* i can do to debug this? what firefox
> configuration settings should i be looking at? i'm willing to try
> anything because, at this point, firefox is utterly unusable. even
> something as simple as scrolling in a window is painfully slow.
>
> oh, and i'm on a quad core i7, so i'm pretty sure horsepower isn't
> the problem.
FWIW, I've been seeing some odd 'laggy' behaviour in F21 on my
desktop lately, which does mostly seem to be in Firefox. I do have
sixteen zillion tabs open, but I do that a lot and it's not happened
before, and RAM isn't exhausted (I have 16GB, using about 8GB). I
don't have Flash installed. Not had time to look into it in more
detail yet, but it does seem like something squiffy is going on.
The symptoms are basically that things like switching tabs,
highlighting text, copy/pasting, or input appearing after I start to
type lag by 1-3 seconds, and sometimes presses/characters that occur
within the lag time are lost.
yup, those are/were my symptoms *exactly* -- it's much better now
that i've disabled flash but that shouldn't have been necessary,
should it? i'm on a quad core i7 and also have 16G of RAM and not even
close to using all of it most of the time.
so it's a bit of a relief that i'm not the only person seeing this.
rday
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