any advice to fix firefox being excruciatingly slooooooooow?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, Tom London wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> 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?
>
>       rday
>
>
> You running firefox-28.0.[123]?

  that i am ... firefox-28.0-3.fc21.x86_64
>
> I noticed that xulrunner-28.0.1.fc21 "failed to build".
>
> Running latest firefox with older xulrunner spews my journal, etc.
>
> I've downgraded to firefox-27.0.1-2.fc21.x86_64 and all is well.

  ok, i'll give that a shot unless someone else can inform that this
problem is being addressed and there will be an imminent update.
surely, i can't be the only person seeing this.

rday

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