On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 12:00:59PM +0000, Terry Barnaby wrote:
Is anyone else seeing issues with Firefox freezing up for 30secs or more when web pages are opened in TABS ?
Since the latest Firefox 57 this is happening a lot for me (every 10 mins or so). Seems to lockup while downloading the page. You can still operate Firefox by clicking on menu's/Tab's etc, but no tab windows have thier web content updated. Normally the new tabs content are blank, but sometimes a small amount of the web page is rendered before the freeze. No obvious high CPU usage when it happens. Its as if the network has stopped, but other applications such as google-chrome are still working.
This is with Fedora27, KDE Plasma and with an NFS mounted home directory.
I see something similar with FF57 on Centos-7. it tends to go on for much longer than 30 seconds, and the HD activity light is pegged ON for the duration. I'm guessing it may be a swap storm, but I don't see unusually high memory usage in top.