Isn't it more likely that part of Firefox needs to be paged in, and the local disk is slow? I see this on a few systems, once in a while.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 10:37 AM, KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 10:00:50AM -0700, spiralofhope wrote: > > The most brute-force test is to create a whole new user profile: > > > > # (exit firefox) > > mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-backup > > # (launch, re-test) > > # (exit firefox) > > rm -rf ~/.mozilla > > mv ~/.mozilla-backup ~/.mozilla > > > > This is what I would call a "Microsoft Windows 95 approach": if it > does not work, uninstall it, reboot, reinstall it, light a candle > beside your screen, fiddle with the system registry, reboot again, > jump on one foot, pull the plug, cross your fingers, boot again, > rinse, repeat... > > Is this really a solution? Then the most principled approach is > probably to stop using Firefox altogether. Seriously, we are not > forced to swallow any crap they want to shovel down our throat. In the > quest to beat IE and then to chase up Chrome, Firefox has become a > *hog*, which is able to do a thousand and more different things (in > most cases quite badly), and also happens to render HTML pages every > now and then. > > I have been quite happy with surf lately. I only need firefox for the > rare case in which I need to access a few javascript-intensive > (crappy) websites for work reasons. And I am actively looking for an > alternative there. > > Computing does not need to be like that. Things can still be done > properly. > > :\ > > KatolaZ > > -- > [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] > [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] > [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] > [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] > [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > -- Bruce Perens K6BP - Standards committee chair, license review committee member, Open Source Initiative President, Open Research Institute
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