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

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

Probably more like dynamic web portals that not so dynamic enough.

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, John G Heim wrote:

> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:12:53
> From: John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>
> To: ?yvind Lode <oyvind lode gmail com>, orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Why does firefox hang my entire machine so often?
>
> That page is just one example. Like I said, practically every day I run into 
> this. Possibly my machine is hanging due to my own frustrations. When it 
> happens, I start pressing keys. Perhaps if I patiently switched to another 
> window, it would effect only firefox. But that is hardly a solution.
>
>
>
> On 12/12/2017 02:54 AM, ?yvind Lode wrote:
> >  Ok, this web site made my firefox very unresponsive.
> >  My entire machine did not hang though but I could not interact with
> >  firefox after opening the site.
> >  I had to kill firefox.
> >
> >  debian buster, mate 1.18, firefox-esr 52 and orca 3.26.0.
> >
> >  I tried on my windows 10 with latest nvda both with chrome and firefox
> >  latest version without any problems.
> >  My browser did not crash or unresponsive but it seems like the website
> >  keeps refreshing or something because I heard a lot of chatting from
> >  nvda.
> >
> >
> >  On 11 December 2017 at 20:29, John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu> wrote:
> > >  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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