Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns?

From	Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns?
Date	2016-12-11 23:47 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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In article <do_ray_me-C70CCC.10032311122016@46.sub-75-242-165.myvzw.com>,
dorayme  <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:
>In article <o2hr6o$1a2$1@dont-email.me>,
> Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't think anything I opened recently was a data-intensive page.
> 
>Maybe not to appearance but other sorts of things could be happening. 

Ah, good point.

 
>> I thought of that, but what if the problem doesn't manifest right
>> away? 
>
>Yes, it might be a bit inconvenient, but you could pause after opening 
>each new site in a new tab (and use another browser in the meantime) 
>and come back to see if there is trouble in FF. 

Yeah, it's certainly worth a try.

 
>Take a look at your Advanced settings,there are options to tick and 
>untick, some might help? Try turning off Enable Firefox Health Report 
>(shares data with Mozilla). Try unticking Use hardware acceleration 
>for a while. 

Okay.

 
>> The only add-on I use is Adblock Plus.
>
>What happens besides unwanted ads appearing when you turn off?

Will try that sometime.

I ended up closing a couple windows, each with a few tabs. FF has
been fine since. So I guess it either didn't like something in
one of those windows, or it didn't like having four windows open.


Patty

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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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