any advice to fix firefox being excruciatingly slooooooooow?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  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

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