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
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