any advice to fix firefox being excruciatingly slooooooooow?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 04:33 -0400, Robert P. J. Day 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?
>
> I'd second the advice to try a nodebug kernel, especially if you're
> low on RAM. The debug kernels aren't as slow as they used to be
> since the maintainers turned slub debugging off, but they're still
> noticeably slower and more RAM-hungry than nodebug kernels.

  here's another symptom which might be informative -- i browsed over
to theweathernetwork.com to check weather for my hometown and firefox
just totally seized up with "Waiting for maps.googleapis.com" at the
bottom. that's now been displaying for over a minute, during which
time i can't scroll, can't switch tabs, etc,. i have two other
browsers up, and they are similarly inoperative. i can't even close
the weather network tab.

  does that description help at all in narrowing things down?

rday

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