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joanmanel

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Registered: 2012-11-06

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Firefox very slow recently.

This happens in two different computers (at home and work). One uses an i5 and nvidia card, and the other both amd cpu and gpu.

So I think this has to be a Firefox (or Arch) problem.

Basically since a few weeks ago my firefox lags a lot in a somewhat random way, but it happens at least once every 5 minutes.

Sometimes opening windows or moving between windows it gets stuck for like 30 seconds. A lot of times (especially when there's flash I think) it gets completely frozen and then it asks me about kill firefox or wait.

The situation is so horrible I am back to Chromium for a while.

clfarron4

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Registered: 2013-06-28

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Re: Firefox very slow recently.

The first (and obvious) question is: "Are you using any Add-ons or not?"

Last edited by clfarron4 (2014-04-22 10:36:11)

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drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: Firefox very slow recently.

It was a few weeks ago that a kernel update caused some problems with Firefox.

If you really want to continue using Firefox, then I'd suggest creating a new clean Firefox profile. If Firefox seems to work properly, then begin adding addons and settings back in.

Is the problem always related to websites with Flash?

EDIT: Just a shot in the dark, making sure your hostname is properly set might make a difference (but probably not).

Last edited by drcouzelis (2014-04-22 12:43:24)