Re: any advice to fix firefox being excruciatingly slooooooooow?

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On 03/30/14 18:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 04:33 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>   since upgrading to rawhide, numerous operations in firefox are just
>>> glacially slow -- playing videos results in jerky motion, scrolling
>>> has a significant time lag, even typing in a search term in youtube
>>> might take several *seconds* before the first letters i typed even
>>> display.
>>>
>>>   i've gone into "about:config" and turned off several features but
>>> that hasn't helped noticeably. anyone else running across this? any
>>> simple advice?
>> I'd second the advice to try a nodebug kernel, especially if you're
>> low on RAM. The debug kernels aren't as slow as they used to be
>> since the maintainers turned slub debugging off, but they're still
>> noticeably slower and more RAM-hungry than nodebug kernels.
>   here's another symptom which might be informative -- i browsed over
> to theweathernetwork.com to check weather for my hometown and firefox
> just totally seized up with "Waiting for maps.googleapis.com" at the
> bottom. that's now been displaying for over a minute, during which
> time i can't scroll, can't switch tabs, etc,. i have two other
> browsers up, and they are similarly inoperative. i can't even close
> the weather network tab.
>
>   does that description help at all in narrowing things down?

Are you saying that the two other browsers are not firefox?

If so, it sounds more like a networking issue.  Maybe an MTU problem.

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