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?
Kevin