On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 07:36:19PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 10:44 -0400, 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. > > FWIW, I've been seeing some odd 'laggy' behaviour in F21 on my desktop > lately, which does mostly seem to be in Firefox. I do have sixteen > zillion tabs open, but I do that a lot and it's not happened before, and > RAM isn't exhausted (I have 16GB, using about 8GB). I don't have Flash > installed. Not had time to look into it in more detail yet, but it does > seem like something squiffy is going on. > > The symptoms are basically that things like switching tabs, highlighting > text, copy/pasting, or input appearing after I start to type lag by 1-3 > seconds, and sometimes presses/characters that occur within the lag time > are lost. I'm having problems with FF on Fedora 19 that just started recently, maybe related, maybe not. In my case, the entire desktop is freezing--even the mouse cursor won't move for 5-10 seconds. It always seems to happen when opening a new blank tab in FF. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
