On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Kevin Martin wrote:
> On 09/24/2014 09:49 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 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
> >
> Have you tried running "firefox -safe-mode" from a terminal and/or
> using a Private Window (ctrl-shift-p)? Does it exhibit the same
> behaviour in either/both of those instances?
safe mode makes no difference; if anything, it makes it worse. i
just brought up a 15-second video, and i got to see all of two
different frames. a private window is somewhat better but still *very*
jumpy video with noticeable pauses.
rday
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