On 09/24/2014 09:49 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Kevin Martin wrote: > >> On 09/24/2014 09:44 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> >>> i am at my wit's end with firefox on my fedora rawhide system -- to >>> say it's nad-grindingly slow would be charitable. just now, i tried >>> clicking on another tab ... some 30 seconds later, i am still waiting >>> for the tab to change, oh, wait, there it is. >>> >>> watching any sort of youtube video is excruciating ... while audio >>> is typically, i will frequently get *maybe* one frame change a second, >>> i kid you not. i frequently get javascripts that are not responding, >>> and i'm asked whether i want to wait for them. >>> >>> is there *something* i can do to debug this? what firefox >>> configuration settings should i be looking at? i'm willing to try >>> anything because, at this point, firefox is utterly unusable. even >>> something as simple as scrolling in a window is painfully slow. >>> >>> oh, and i'm on a quad core i7, so i'm pretty sure horsepower isn't >>> the problem. >>> >>> rday >>> >> I see this happen when Firefox starts eating memory. "top" will >> show Firefox using upwards of a GB of ram...I restart it and then >> it's good to go for a couple of days. > > that can't be it ... this is on a laptop and i move around a fair > bit, i might shutdown to go downtown, shutdown again to come home, and > so on. this behaviour is consistent. > > rday > Have you tried running "firefox -safe-mode" from a terminal and/or using a Private Window (ctrl-shift-p)? Does it exhibit the same behaviour in either/both of those instances?
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