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Out of curiosity: have you tried "Reset Firefox" (in about:config – you won't lose anything if you don't have add-ons)? Most users experience a huge speedup whe

by Yoric 13y ago

Out of curiosity: have you tried "Reset Firefox" (in about:config – you won't lose anything if you don't have add-ons)? Most users experience a huge speedup when they use it.

gojomo 13y ago
I don't see a 'Reset Firefox' option when I visit 'about:config' (FF/23.0 'beta channel' MacOS). (UPDATE:) Per <http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems> http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix..., it appears 'about:support' is the right place. I suspect this would help, but the problem would recur as soon as I restore my core Add-ons and usual tabs. In my experience, Firefox gets slower and slower the longer it's been open and with many tabs open. I believe it to be related to GC. Unfortunately, there aren't any hints (like per-tab activity/memory/allocation/timer readouts) as to which tabs are contributing the most to the problem. Sometimes I'll guess the miscreants and closing enough of them helps, but more often things only improve after a restart (essentially unloading all tabs until revisited). It does seem add-ons are implicated (and perhaps especially Firebug, even if Firebug is not activated in any tab). NoScript may also be implicated; especially with regard to pages that have some but not all script sources enabled.
- pooriaazimi 13y ago
  It's in Help -> Troubleshooting Read this article to see what it preserves (or "tries to preserve"): http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix... FWIW, I just tried it and it indeed made things a whole lot faster.
  - Yoric 13y ago
    Cool :) We are working on ways to make this a little more intuitive.
pooriaazimi 13y ago
It did indeed! Thanks! BTW, I didn't find "Reset Firefox" in the about:config page - it was in Help -> Troubleshooting Information.
Yoric 13y ago
My bad: "about:support", not "about:config".

by Yoric 13y ago

Out of curiosity: have you tried "Reset Firefox" (in about:config – you won't lose anything if you don't have add-ons)? Most users experience a huge speedup when they use it.

gojomo 13y ago

I don't see a 'Reset Firefox' option when I visit 'about:config' (FF/23.0 'beta channel' MacOS). (UPDATE:) Per <http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems> http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix..., it appears 'about:support' is the right place. I suspect this would help, but the problem would recur as soon as I restore my core Add-ons and usual tabs. In my experience, Firefox gets slower and slower the longer it's been open and with many tabs open. I believe it to be related to GC. Unfortunately, there aren't any hints (like per-tab activity/memory/allocation/timer readouts) as to which tabs are contributing the most to the problem. Sometimes I'll guess the miscreants and closing enough of them helps, but more often things only improve after a restart (essentially unloading all tabs until revisited). It does seem add-ons are implicated (and perhaps especially Firebug, even if Firebug is not activated in any tab). NoScript may also be implicated; especially with regard to pages that have some but not all script sources enabled.

pooriaazimi 13y ago
It's in Help -> Troubleshooting Read this article to see what it preserves (or "tries to preserve"): http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix... FWIW, I just tried it and it indeed made things a whole lot faster.
- Yoric 13y ago
  Cool :) We are working on ways to make this a little more intuitive.

pooriaazimi 13y ago

It did indeed! Thanks! BTW, I didn't find "Reset Firefox" in the about:config page - it was in Help -> Troubleshooting Information.

Yoric 13y ago

My bad: "about:support", not "about:config".