Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds

2010-01-24 Thread Jack Dodds
To close this thread: I removed the torbutton addon taken directly from mozilla.org and installed the Debian torbutton package. It works. No more hangs. Jack Dodds wrote: > Hello Sun, > > Thank you for telling me about safe mode - I did not know about it. > > Sure enough, the problem seems to

Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds

2009-12-28 Thread Anthony Baldwin
--- On Mon, 12/28/09, Kevin Ross wrote: > From: Kevin Ross > Subject: Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 3:21 AM > Jack Dodds wrote: > > If anyone can i

Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds

2009-12-27 Thread Jack Dodds
Hello Sun, Thank you for telling me about safe mode - I did not know about it. Sure enough, the problem seems to disappear in safe mode. I compared my profile with another user's profile. That user had not noticed the "hang" problem. The only difference in the profiles is that the other profil

Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds

2009-12-27 Thread Kevin Ross
Jack Dodds wrote: If anyone can identify this problem, or offer suggestions about how to further narrow it down, I would appreciate it. Jack Dodd How much memory is Iceweasel using when it starts acting up? Firefox on my Windows machine does the same, when I have about 20 tabs open and it's

Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds

2009-12-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/27/2009 3:16 PM, Jack Dodds wrote: My system is a 1.8 GHz Pentium using Debian stable. I update frequently from debian.org. Several weeks ago, I started noticing that Iceweasel would sometimes stop responding to mouse or keyboard inputs for about five seconds. After each such "hang" it wo

Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds

2009-12-27 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
I would suggest browsing in safe mode. If the problem persists, file a bug. If not, create a new profile and one at time add the same addons from your other profile until the problem shows up again. -- swk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds

2009-12-27 Thread Jack Dodds
My system is a 1.8 GHz Pentium using Debian stable. I update frequently from debian.org. Several weeks ago, I started noticing that Iceweasel would sometimes stop responding to mouse or keyboard inputs for about five seconds. After each such "hang" it would resume operating normally. For exampl