firefox in Rawhide has become unusable for me also.  It seems to have
runaway scripts and hangs all the time.  It is asking me to force-kill
it all the time.  I have had to switch to chrome, in order to have a
working browser.


On 03/29/2014 11:45 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, Tom London wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 8:02 AM, drago01 <drag...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>       On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Tom London <seli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>       > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Robert P. J. Day 
>> <rpj...@crashcourse.ca>
>>       > wrote:
>>       >>
>>       >>
>>       >>   since upgrading to rawhide, numerous operations in firefox are 
>> just
>>       >> glacially slow -- playing videos results in jerky motion, scrolling
>>       >> has a significant time lag, even typing in a search term in youtube
>>       >> might take several *seconds* before the first letters i typed even
>>       >> display.
>>       >>
>>       >>   i've gone into "about:config" and turned off several features but
>>       >> that hasn't helped noticeably. anyone else running across this? any
>>       >> simple advice?
>>       >>
>>       >> rday
>>       >
>>       >
>>       > You running firefox-28.0.[123]?
>>       >
>>       > I noticed that xulrunner-28.0.1.fc21 "failed to build".
>>       >
>>       > Running latest firefox with older xulrunner spews my journal, etc.
>>
>> Firefox no longer needs xulrunner.
>> --
>>
>>
>> Interesting....
>>
>> If I remove xulrunner-27.0-1.fc21, even firefox-27-0.1-2.fc21.x86_64 behaves 
>> badly.
>>
>> I see these errors when running firefox without xulrunner when it "gets 
>> stuck".
>>
>> WARNING: pipe error (146): Connection reset by peer: 
>> file/builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-27.0.1/mozilla-release/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_chan
>> nel_posix.cc, line 446
>> WARNING: pipe error (3): Connection reset by peer: 
>> file/builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-27.0.1/mozilla-release/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_chan
>> nel_posix.cc, line 446
>> WARNING: pipe error (3): Connection reset by peer: 
>> file/builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-27.0.1/mozilla-release/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_chan
>> nel_posix.cc, line 446
>>
>> If I reinstall xulrunner-27.0-1.fc21.x86_64 I no longer see these and 
>> firefox is back to its
>> old self...
>   i have xulrunner-27.0-1.fc21.x86_64 installed on my currently
> fully-updated rawhide system.
>
> rday
>
>
>

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