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Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns?

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In article <o2kori$9oq$2@dont-email.me>, Patty Winter
<patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:

> In article <0001HW.D472C4DC04D353ADB02919BF@news.astraweb.com>,
> Nelson  <nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:
> >On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 14:48:40 -0500, Patty Winter wrote
> >(in article <o2hm6o$g6a$1@dont-email.me>):
> >
> >> Is there any way to determine a specific troublemaker within FF?
> >
> >I also see this occasionally.  My impression is that the beachball 
> >means it's trying to access the disk, not waiting for a website.  
> 
> Oh, okay.
> 
> >Firefox maintains an awful lot of data (caches, browsing history, 
> >bookmarks, etc.).  My guess is that is periodically spending time 
> >cleaning up and managing it.  Also, if you have a lot of tabs open and 
> >not a lot of ram it might be waiting to swap in and out of memory. I 
> >would look at activity monitor to see if it is disk access or cpu that 
> >is causing the beachball.  
> 
> I've been looking at the default AM tab of CPU. Will look at the
> other tabs sometime.
> 
> 
> >In my experience, if it is waiting for a 
> >website it just freezes without throwing a beachball.  
> 
> That's a good clue, thanks. 
> 
> Is there anything in the FF diagnostics that gives real-time
> indications of any hangups?
> 
> 
> Patty
> 

Have you looked at about:performance?

(about:about gives a list of all those about: pages)

Which version of FF?

-- 
Ed H.

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How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2016-12-10 19:48 +0000
  Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2016-12-11 07:38 +1100
    Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2016-12-10 21:14 +0000
      Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2016-12-11 10:03 +1100
        Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2016-12-11 23:47 +0000
  Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2016-12-11 08:54 -0500
    Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2016-12-11 23:52 +0000
      Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2016-12-11 19:56 -0500
      Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? "Ed H." <phoney@bogus.com> - 2016-12-13 22:57 -0600
        Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2016-12-14 05:55 +0000
        Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2016-12-15 05:05 -0500

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