Massive slowdowns in Firefox

eschwartz · 2015-07-14 03:03:24

Ever since I upgraded to Firefox 39.0-1, Firefox spends the majority of its time frozen. It will completely lock up on me for minutes at a time, and then again almost immediately after it started working again.
I've had to revert to FF 38.0.5 in order to get any functionality back.

Looking at the svntogit changelog, one thing stands out -- Firefox now builds with "--enable-pie". As suggested in the bugreport this could slow it down, but I don't know whether that fully explains my problem.
I am running i686 (on an 11-year-old Dell Inspiron B130 with 2GB RAM), so I wouldn't be surprised at a certain amount of slowness, but as it is, it is unworkable!
(I should add, I also tend to keep a lot of tabs open. That has never been a problem before.)

Is anyone else experiencing such slowdowns, possibly on i686?
Is it possible there may be some other reason why FF 39 only is unbearably slow?

eschwartz · 2015-07-14 03:13:51

Meanwhile I am going to try rebuilding from the ABS overnight with that option disabled, but that's going to take a while with my computer . Might not even work, apparently browsers eat metric tons of RAM during the build process.

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#1 2015-07-14 03:03:24

Massive slowdowns in Firefox

#2 2015-07-14 03:13:51

Re: Massive slowdowns in Firefox

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