On Sun, 30 Mar 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: > 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. sorry for being unclear, yes, they're firefox, just two other invocations. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test