Re: [arch-general] Firefox "stalling" behaviour
All, I tried all the suggestions provided, and the behavior has stopped. I have also logged back into my Mozilla account and that hasn't yet caused a recurrence. I guess either the TearFree and/or the .drirc setting have done the trick. Thanks for the excellent suggestions given my terrible level of detail! No hardware info, no nothing for you to go by... Paul On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 3:42 PM Paul Hart wrote: > Hi, > > I'd really like to use the Firefox browser (currently using Iridium), but > I'm seeing a strange behavior where it "stalls" intermittently. The > rendering engine seems to randomly pause activity (i.e. not responsive to > scrolling input), and these pauses can last for several seconds. It also > appears to affect video playback. > > I haven't knowingly done anything with my user settings that would cause > this to happen; I have a few add-ons, but they should all be well-behaved > (1PasswordX, Facebook Container, Multi-account Container, uBlock Origin). > > Has anyone seen this and figured out a solution? > > Thanks, > > Paul >
Re: [arch-general] Firefox "stalling" behaviour
On 12/9/19, Miguel Aguiar wrote: >>I'm seeing a strange behavior where it "stalls" intermittently. The >>rendering engine seems to randomly pause activity (i.e. not responsive to >>scrolling input), and these pauses can last for several seconds. It also >>appears to affect video playback. Are you logged-in in a Firefox Account? Because while Firefox Sync is working (syncing) you'll have that kind of "stalling", AFAIK.
Re: [arch-general] Firefox "stalling" behaviour
> I'd really like to use the Firefox browser (currently using Iridium), but > I'm seeing a strange behavior where it "stalls" intermittently. The > rendering engine seems to randomly pause activity (i.e. not responsive to > scrolling input), and these pauses can last for several seconds. It also > appears to affect video playback. > > I haven't knowingly done anything with my user settings that would cause > this to happen; I have a few add-ons, but they should all be well-behaved > (1PasswordX, Facebook Container, Multi-account Container, uBlock Origin). > > Has anyone seen this and figured out a solution? First, check if those are not add-ons by running a clean profile. Mere belief that they’re not the culprit is not evidence. If the behaviour continues in a clean profile, check load during those stalls — e.g. in `htop`, which shows a nice load graph. Possibly programs Firefox downloads and runs (aka JavaScript) are eating all your CPU resources. If that doesn’t explain the problem, check if dmesg contains any errors that correlate with your issue. That’s unlikely, but not impossible. Also see if you do have enough of RAM and no swapping occurs. That shouldn’t be a concern on any modern computer, but the symptom is similar and, since I have no specific ideas, everything’s worth checking. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[arch-general] Firefox "stalling" behaviour
Hi, I'd really like to use the Firefox browser (currently using Iridium), but I'm seeing a strange behavior where it "stalls" intermittently. The rendering engine seems to randomly pause activity (i.e. not responsive to scrolling input), and these pauses can last for several seconds. It also appears to affect video playback. I haven't knowingly done anything with my user settings that would cause this to happen; I have a few add-ons, but they should all be well-behaved (1PasswordX, Facebook Container, Multi-account Container, uBlock Origin). Has anyone seen this and figured out a solution? Thanks, Paul
Re: [arch-general] Firefox-71.0-1 breaks WhatsApp Web
On 12/9/19 11:01 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > > On 12/9/19 6:48 AM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote: >> You should not upgrade the firefox package while it's open. That's a >> lesson I've >> learned when I've also lost a profile. Everytime you see firefox in >> the upgrade >> packages list, I suggest you close it and then upgrade. > > IMHO, you really shouldn't upgrade any package while it's running. I > always use "pacman -Syuw" to download all needed updates, then drop into > single user mode to actually install everything with "pacman -Su". Seems > like that would be a best practice to me. You can use `checkupdates -d` to download packages using a temporary database, thus avoiding: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_maintenance#Avoid_certain_pacman_commands Which may lead to accidental cases of: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_maintenance#Partial_upgrades_are_unsupported -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Firefox-71.0-1 breaks WhatsApp Web
On 12/9/19 6:48 AM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote: You should not upgrade the firefox package while it's open. That's a lesson I've learned when I've also lost a profile. Everytime you see firefox in the upgrade packages list, I suggest you close it and then upgrade. IMHO, you really shouldn't upgrade any package while it's running. I always use "pacman -Syuw" to download all needed updates, then drop into single user mode to actually install everything with "pacman -Su". Seems like that would be a best practice to me. DR
Re: [arch-general] Firefox-71.0-1 breaks WhatsApp Web
Em dezembro 9, 2019 0:55 Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general escreveu: After more investigation and travelling back and forth, it appears the issue had at least 2 roots. One is that the update process somehow broke my existing profile. A new profile solves that. The second is that the latest version of firefox seems to not be able to authenticate with an NTLM proxy specifically for web.whatsapp.com. This has happened before - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536787 shows almost identical behaviour to what I am experiencing. However I was not using Firefox at that time. Perhaps I'll just switch back to Chromium for whatsapp web. You should not upgrade the firefox package while it's open. That's a lesson I've learned when I've also lost a profile. Everytime you see firefox in the upgrade packages list, I suggest you close it and then upgrade. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini pgp2YAajqZs8t.pgp Description: PGP signature
