can someone suggest why firefox is so &$*&^%*#^&%* slow?

[Felix Miata]

Robert P. J. Day wrote on 2014-09-27 05:52 (UTC-0400):

> On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Adam Williamson wrote:

>> 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.

>   yup, those are/were my symptoms *exactly* -- it's much better now
> that i've disabled flash but that shouldn't have been necessary,
> should it? i'm on a quad core i7 and also have 16G of RAM and not even
> close to using all of it most of the time.

>   so it's a bit of a relief that i'm not the only person seeing this.

Be thankful you're not running Cauldron, crashing FF instead of just slow going:
https://ml.mageia.org/l/arc/dev/2014-09/msg00635.html
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