Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-30 Thread Joel Roth
Brad Rogers wrote: > Joel Roth 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 debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:14:21 -1000 Joel Roth 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 apparent" Two sides

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 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

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 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 dr

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
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. Until a couple of weeks ago I had a really strange speed problem with FF/Iceweasel. It would run really happily e

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:47:45 -0400 (EDT), Brian 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 the vesa driver for

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 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, etc

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 > s

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 slu

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 switch

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Stephen Powell 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 iceweasel has become

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:07:21 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell 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, sometimes, flash can