On 12/27/2016 02:16 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
James Knott composed on 2016-12-26 22:43 (UTC-0500):
How many windows do you have open? I generally run 15-20 or so. Regardless, performance is much worse than on 13.1. Even then, I'd have to kill Firefox occasionally as it would bog down after a while.
Window count could conceivably have something to do with it. Most multi-tasking people I think are multi-tab users, not multi-browser window users. That goes particularly for Mozilla.org devs. So there may not be much testing involving many open windows.
Is the FF of which you complain built with GTK3, or with GTK2. If ~49 or newer the default is GTK3, so about:buildconfig should say GTK2 if built with GTK2, or include no GTK string if built with GTK3 and ~49 or newer. Maybe which GTK makes a difference. FF ESR is still built with GTK2.
It's GTK2
Does it help to start FF using -safe-mode or with a virgin profile?
I have never used either. I have my own profile, where I have several windows and tabs open.
ISTR you are a user highly in favor of and equipped to use IPV6. Maybe IPV6 is part or root of your observations? Here all booting is done with ipv6.disable=1 on kernel cmdline. Current, recent and pre-release Gecko versions here all behave about the same WRT to responsiveness. My most used FF is 45.6ESR, which currently has an estimated 38 open tabs, while I have other Gecko browser windows open with as many as an estimated 60+ tabs. Total Gecko browser window open count is currently 5 on this 42.1. Slowdowns only seem to occur when Facebook pages are open, but they clear up on their own given time. My SM browser history in which I visit FB is 52,428,800 bytes ATM, about 2.5 times the default allocation.
I have been running IPv6 for over 6.5 years. This problem started when I installed 42.2. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org