any advice to fix firefox being excruciatingly slooooooooow?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 30 Mar 2014, Ed Greshko wrote:

> On 03/30/14 18:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Are you saying that the two other browsers are not firefox?
>
> If so, it sounds more like a networking issue.  Maybe an MTU
> problem.

  sorry for being unclear, yes, they're firefox, just two other
invocations.

rday

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