Allegedly, on or about 19 July 2017, Robert P. J. Day sent:
on a regularly-updated F25 system, firefox recently become just
excruciatingly slow, and i don't recall tweaking any settings. has
something happened lately? anyone else noticing this?
Are you using advert blocking, and browsing ad-infested sites? Some of
them stall and take forever when you don't let them load the crap.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
(always current details of the computer that I'm writing this email on)
Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is
no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages
posted to the mailing list.
Computers are like dentists. They have their uses, but they're both
bloody pains.