Re: firefox keeps freezing on me

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On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 11:12 PM Michael Hennebry
<hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My firefox on F38 freezes a lot.
> I get "Firefox" is not responding a lot.
> At one time, I thought it was because of too many windows and tabs open.
> I closed several windows.
> Shutting it down and bringing it back up often helped,
> but not necessarily for very long.
> According to top, firefox freezes even when the load
> average is less than two, most of swap is free
> and neither firefox nor its minions are near the top of top.
> My new suspicion is that it waits for something
> that does not happen often enough.
> How do I diagnose this?

I don't know how to diagnose Firefox problems. Others have given you
some places to go.

But I've found most of the time, my problems were related to GPU
drivers and acceleration. Here's how to disable them:
<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration#w_turning-off-hardware-acceleration>.

Jeff
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