On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Kevin Martin wrote:
On 09/24/2014 09:49 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Kevin Martin wrote:
>
>> On 09/24/2014 09:44 AM, 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.
>>>
>>> rday
>>>
>> I see this happen when Firefox starts eating memory. "top" will
>> show Firefox using upwards of a GB of ram...I restart it and then
>> it's good to go for a couple of days.
>
> that can't be it ... this is on a laptop and i move around a fair
> bit, i might shutdown to go downtown, shutdown again to come home, and
> so on. this behaviour is consistent.
>
> rday
>
Have you tried running "firefox -safe-mode" from a terminal and/or
using a Private Window (ctrl-shift-p)? Does it exhibit the same
behaviour in either/both of those instances?
safe mode makes no difference; if anything, it makes it worse. i
just brought up a 15-second video, and i got to see all of two
different frames. a private window is somewhat better but still *very*
jumpy video with noticeable pauses.
rday
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