I had the same problem with FF 57 on Fedora 26; found solution on FF forum:
go to about:config and set accessibility.force_disabled = 1 (it's 0 by default) worked for me. On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Terry Barnaby <ter...@beam.ltd.uk> wrote: > On 01/01/18 15:07, George N. White III wrote: > > On 1 January 2018 at 09:27, Fred Smith <fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 12:00:59PM +0000, Terry Barnaby wrote: >> > Is anyone else seeing issues with Firefox freezing up for 30secs or >> > more when web pages are opened in TABS ? >> > > I had problems with Firefox freezes (very long delays responding to any > mouse > click) on several systems (linux and macOS). Removing the Mr. Robot add-on > (https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/16/firefox-mr-robot-extension/) seems > to have restored normal operation. > > >> > Since the latest Firefox 57 this is happening a lot for me (every 10 >> > mins or so). Seems to lockup while downloading the page. You can >> > still operate Firefox by clicking on menu's/Tab's etc, but no tab >> > windows have thier web content updated. Normally the new tabs >> > content are blank, but sometimes a small amount of the web page is >> > rendered before the freeze. No obvious high CPU usage when it >> > happens. Its as if the network has stopped, but other applications >> > such as google-chrome are still working. >> > >> > This is with Fedora27, KDE Plasma and with an NFS mounted home >> directory. >> >> I see something similar with FF57 on Centos-7. it tends to go on for >> much longer than 30 seconds, and the HD activity light is pegged ON >> for the duration. I'm guessing it may be a swap storm, but I don't see >> unusually high memory usage in top. >> >> -- >> ---- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us >> ----------------------------- >> The Lord is like a strong tower. >> Those who do what is right can run to him for safety. >> --------------------------- Proverbs 18:10 (niv) >> ----------------------------- >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> > > > > -- > George N. White III <aa...@chebucto.ns.ca> > Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Well, in my case it is also often longer than 30 secs, not sure how long > as I normally go and do something else while its loading the pages. I don't > think it is disk related, no obvious activity (SSD disk and 16 G of RAM). > No addons and reset all Firefox settings etc. Internet access here is 80/20 > Mbps FTTP and seems solid so I don't think it is Internet connection > related. > > But the problem does seems to be network access related, maybe multiple > thread locking issues in Firefox ? > > Terry > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen E. Perkins, RN -- Poetry and Community Health RuralTechnologies.net -- Linux since Red Hat 5.1, 1998 Open-source Collaboration -- Fedora since 2003 “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." - Walter J. Savitch, * Pascal: An Introduction to the Art and Science of Programming* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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