any advice to fix firefox being excruciatingly slooooooooow?

[Felix Miata]

On 2014-03-29 04:33 (GMT-0400) Robert P. J. Day composed:

> 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?

Try a mozilla.org binary. If it's better, maybe there's a problem with build 
options or foundational deps like nss or nspr. If flash is installed, try 
uninstalling it. What extensions do you have installed?
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