[arch-general] Firefox slowness

David Rosenstrauch darose at darose.net
Fri Nov 13 15:34:43 UTC 2020


On 11/12/20 3:27 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> On 11/12/20 12:50 PM, LuKaRo wrote:
>> On 12.11.20 18:46, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm guessing this must be something having to do
>>> with Firefox 82 though.
>>
>> I'm also on 82.0.3 already, without noticing problems. So I'd really 
>> recommend checking with a clean profile :)
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> After a big more research, it looks like there were a couple of tabs 
> that I had open that were sending/receiving data in the background 
> (and/or had some advertising code running on them) that were hogging 
> CPU.  When I closed those down things quieted down.

Not 100% sure yet, but it looks like switching over to the zen kernel 
may have also helped here as well.

DR


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