Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-04 Thread Jonathan Kamens
On 05/03/2012 03:59 AM, Matej Cepl wrote: On 3.5.2012 00:31, Jonathan Kamens wrote: Frequent hangs for anywhere from a second to 30 seconds. Lack of responsiveness to key and button presses. Delays from when I clicked a scroll bar and dragged it to when the window actually scrolled. Frequent lon

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-03 Thread Matej Cepl
On 3.5.2012 00:31, Jonathan Kamens wrote: Frequent hangs for anywhere from a second to 30 seconds. Lack of responsiveness to key and button presses. Delays from when I clicked a scroll bar and dragged it to when the window actually scrolled. Frequent long delays from when an external app tried to

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-02 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Frequent hangs for anywhere from a second to 30 seconds. Lack of responsiveness to key and button presses. Delays from when I clicked a scroll bar and dragged it to when the window actually scrolled. Frequent long delays from when an external app tried to launch a page to when the tab actually o

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 10:14 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 01 May 2012 09:50:22 -0400 > Jonathan Kamens wrote: > > > Does anybody have any thoughts? > > My only thought is that firefox became popular mainly because > it wasn't a slow bloated mess, now it has evolved into a slow > bloated mes

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-02 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/1/12 6:09 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:51:08 -0400 Adam Jackson wrote: - xulrunner maybe shouldn't assert PRIMARY ownership in this case That's the point for me: What on earth in the bookmarks sidebar needs or wants the selection? And it is a super long delay just in fir

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:51:08 -0400 Adam Jackson wrote: > - xulrunner maybe shouldn't assert PRIMARY ownership in this case That's the point for me: What on earth in the bookmarks sidebar needs or wants the selection? And it is a super long delay just in firefox. I can run other apps that really

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 14:22 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2012 14:11:15 -0400 > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > In my experience, extremely slow FF performance is usually due to > > writing out either the assorted sqlite data files in the profile > > directory, or the big javascript pile

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 1 May 2012 14:11:15 -0400 Bill Nottingham wrote: > In my experience, extremely slow FF performance is usually due to > writing out either the assorted sqlite data files in the profile > directory, or the big javascript pile that is the session storage. I've got one really weird slowdown I

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jonathan Kamens (j...@kamens.us) said: > I restarted Firefox many times. I restarted gnome-shell. I restarted > my machine. Nothing helped. Performance was poor immediately after > the restart. There was no perceivable degradation over time -- it > was extremely poor right from when it started up

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Jonathan Kamens
On 5/1/2012 1:53 PM, Adam Pribyl wrote: IMHO it was the restart that "fixed" it. I experience this "getting slow" think to happen for a long time. After several days of run, firefox needs to be restarted. 1. it's taking too much RAM, 2. usually causing higher CPU load than after restart with sa

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Adam Pribyl
On Tue, 1 May 2012, Pedro Francisco wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Jonathan Kamens wrote: I thought I would try moving my profile out of the way to see if performance would improve, so I shut down Firefox and moved ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default somewhere else. But then when I tried to r

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Pedro Francisco
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > I thought I would try moving my profile out of the way to see if performance > would improve, so I shut down Firefox and moved ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default > somewhere else. But then when I tried to restart Firefox, it said that it > was alr

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Akshay Vyas
well Jonathan Kamens you are bit lucky :) because i dont see any major changes after doing the same it's still slow On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > On 5/1/2012 10:28 AM, David wrote: > > The major of the 'Firefox is slow' problems are caused by misbehaving > themes and

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Jonathan Kamens
On 5/1/2012 10:28 AM, David wrote: The major of the 'Firefox is slow' problems are caused by misbehaving themes and extensions and the the 'remnants' that some of them leave in the configuration files. Yes, I'm aware of that, but that doesn't explain why moving my entire ~/.mozilla/firefox direc

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread David
On 5/1/2012 10:14 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 01 May 2012 09:50:22 -0400 > Jonathan Kamens wrote: > >> Does anybody have any thoughts? > > My only thought is that firefox became popular mainly because > it wasn't a slow bloated mess, now it has evolved into a slow > bloated mess, and chrome

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Akshay Vyas
Hi Jonathan Kamens i am facing the same problems with firefox 12.0 in fedora 16 x86_64 it takes more then 10 seconds to open and more then 5 secs to open a new tab well i didn't tried anything fix it yet but i will also try to do the same hope it will fix some issues On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:20

Re: Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 01 May 2012 09:50:22 -0400 Jonathan Kamens wrote: > Does anybody have any thoughts? My only thought is that firefox became popular mainly because it wasn't a slow bloated mess, now it has evolved into a slow bloated mess, and chrome is becoming popular because it isn't a slow bloated mess

Weird Firefox performance issue

2012-05-01 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Hi everyone, I was seeing really, really poor performance from Firefox. I'm not sure exactly when it started being a problem, but it was going on for at least a week and I certainly saw it with Firefox 12 (in F17 x86_64). I thought I would try moving my profile out of the way to see if perfo