Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-30 Thread Joel Roth
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:16:26PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:07:21 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: Hello Stephen, I have been using the iceweasel web browser for years; but in the past several weeks using an up-to-date jessie system, iceweasel

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:14:21 -1000 Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: Hello Joel, `killall plugin-container` is often enough Great tip, thanks. I'll try it out next time flash drags. -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-30 Thread Joel Roth
Brad Rogers wrote: Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: Hello Joel, `killall plugin-container` is often enough Great tip, thanks. I'll try it out next time flash drags. FWIW, this was revealed to me by running top. -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: I have been using the iceweasel web browser for years; but in the past several weeks using an up-to-date jessie system, iceweasel has become very sluggish. Until a couple of weeks ago I had a really strange speed problem with FF/Iceweasel. It would

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-24 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Oct 2013 at 21:36:54 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:47:45 -0400 (EDT), Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Didn't you have some sort of problem with X recently? Something to do with your video adapter? What driver are you using with it at present? I did.

sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Stephen Powell
I have been using the iceweasel web browser for years; but in the past several weeks using an up-to-date jessie system, iceweasel has become very sluggish. Even the simplest operations, like scrolling the screen, have become so sluggish that iceweasel has become almost unusable. I just tried

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:07:21 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: Hello Stephen, I have been using the iceweasel web browser for years; but in the past several weeks using an up-to-date jessie system, iceweasel has become very sluggish. No problems here, Stephen. Although,

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes: I have been using the iceweasel web browser for years; but in the past several weeks using an up-to-date jessie system, iceweasel has become very sluggish. Even the simplest operations, like scrolling the screen, have become so sluggish that

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Daniel Phillips
I agree. Over the last couple of months I have tried to use Iceweasel, but despite it's attractive add-ons, I always end up going back to Chromium for the reasons you state. I have tried renaming the profile folder and various tweaks, but could never get it to work well. The tabs are slow to

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 23 October 2013 14:07:21 Stephen Powell wrote: I have been using the iceweasel web browser for years; but in the past several weeks using an up-to-date jessie system, iceweasel has become very sluggish. Even the simplest operations, like scrolling the screen, have become so

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Oct 2013 at 09:07:21 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: I have been using the iceweasel web browser for years; but in the past several weeks using an up-to-date jessie system, iceweasel has become very sluggish. Even the simplest operations, like scrolling the screen, have become so

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Brad Alexander
I have seen my iceweasel on my workstation continually grab up more and more memory and/or CPU. I suspect it is either a or more like a combination of ad-ons that are causing a memory leak. I have reduced it to the minimum I need to feel comfortable (adblock plus, request policy, tab mix plus,

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:54:37 -0400 (EDT), Dmitrii Kashin wrote: I do not see this problem. What is your hardware? i386 platform. Intel Xeon processor. A single hyperthreaded core (two threads). SMP kernel. 2.40 GHz processor speed. 4G of RAM. ATI Range XL video chip. mach64 X driver.

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:47:45 -0400 (EDT), Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Didn't you have some sort of problem with X recently? Something to do with your video adapter? What driver are you using with it at present? I did. The mach64 driver crashed during initialization and I switched to