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 8:02 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>       On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> 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]?
>       >
>       > I noticed that xulrunner-28.0.1.fc21 "failed to build".
>       >
>       > Running latest firefox with older xulrunner spews my journal, etc.
>
> Firefox no longer needs xulrunner.
> --
>
>
> Interesting....
>
> If I remove xulrunner-27.0-1.fc21, even firefox-27-0.1-2.fc21.x86_64 behaves badly.
>
> I see these errors when running firefox without xulrunner when it "gets stuck".
>
> WARNING: pipe error (146): Connection reset by peer: file/builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-27.0.1/mozilla-release/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_chan
> nel_posix.cc, line 446
> WARNING: pipe error (3): Connection reset by peer: file/builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-27.0.1/mozilla-release/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_chan
> nel_posix.cc, line 446
> WARNING: pipe error (3): Connection reset by peer: file/builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-27.0.1/mozilla-release/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_chan
> nel_posix.cc, line 446
>
> If I reinstall xulrunner-27.0-1.fc21.x86_64 I no longer see these and firefox is back to its
> old self...

  i have xulrunner-27.0-1.fc21.x86_64 installed on my currently
fully-updated rawhide system.

rday

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