[arch-general] Firefox slowness

[Zero]

On 11/12/20 6:46 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> On 11/12/20 12:36 PM, riveravaldez via arch-general wrote:
>> On 11/12/20, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
>>> Perhaps this is just me, but it feels like Firefox has gotten super 
>>> slow
>>> / hogging lots of CPU recently.  Anyone else seeing this? And/or know
>>> what might be causing it?  (Some recent upgrade to the package 
>>> perhaps?)
>>
>> Just in case, if you're using the Sync function, it takes some time 
>> and CPU
>> work at start up, I usually open Firefox and check until that syncing 
>> is done.
>>
>> Best regards.
>
> I don't use sync'ing.  I'm guessing this must be something having to 
> do with Firefox 82 though.
>
> DR


FWIW I am experiencing the same, slowness of firefox especially when 
starting up.

I have also firefox version 82.0.3 but the apparent slowness was also 
present in earlier versions.

I am using firefox under windows 10.

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~Z