Re: [orca-list] Why does firefox hang my entire machine so often?

[Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud hypra fr>]

Hello John,

Do you have multi-processes enabled on Firefox ?

I've opened the page you've mentioned without issue.

Best regards.
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Alex ARNAUD
Visual-Impairment Project Manager
Hypra - "Humanizing technology"

Le 11/12/2017 à 20:29, John G Heim a écrit :
> Hardly a day goes by where I don't find myself frustrated by my entire 
> machine being hung while browsing the web with firefox. I am running 
> debian stable, fully updated, on a quad-core I5 with 16 Gb of ram, and a 
> 1Gb network connection. My office is literally a couple of hundred yards 
> from the internet backbone. I ought to have about as pleasant a browsing 
> experience as anybody. Yet practically every day, my machine hangs for a 
> minute or 2 when I point a browser at some web page. I know from sshing 
> in that it's that the load has peaked out at 2 or 3. Themachine responds 
> very slowly to keystrokes and orca says nothing. There are little bursts 
> of activity where it processes 3 or 4 of the keystrokes I had pressed 
> earlier.
>
> Here is a link to a page that frustrated me:
> http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2017/12/deshone_kizer_helps_his_cause.html 
>
>
> If I do that now, it loads fairly quickly. But earlier today, it hung my 
> machine for long enough that I just killed firefox.
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