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

I'm coming to this conversation late, but I must add that Firefox does
freeze on me at times.

I'm running release FF, currently 57, in a pretty stock Arch Gnome
environment.

Sometimes, I think there might be some kind of popup that's blocking my
session. Other times I've experienced issues from suspend and resume.
Occasionally I need to find a root console and kill the FF pid. Very
occasionally, a larger restart is required.


Some sites that used to work for me are now broken. Two examples are the
Schwab.com and vitelity.net. The former is my bank. There I've been
forced off of FF and onto their Android app. The latter is my SIP and
PSTN gateway service. It's prepaid, and not adding funds in a timely
manner results in account suspension. Last email warning I got was
literally as rude as: "Pay up in 30 minutes or we'll close you out." I
kid you not.

I filed an emergency ticket with Vitelity's support system. That forced
me to agree to a $25 charge. They suggested I needed to use Chrome on a
desktop. They're explicitly not supporting access from mobile devices
(which is what I'd been trying). Thankfully, I had Chrome on a Macbook.

I can't prove it yet, but I believe much of the new web authoring is
once again becoming browser specific. Unfortunately for us, that also
means underlying OS specific, not just browser specific. I'll be testing
this with Schwab in the next week or so.

Janina

John G Heim writes:

Well, like I said, it doesn't happen every time even for me. But are you
saying this never happens for you? You're browsing the web and firefox never
becomes unresponsive? Maybe I shouldn't even have given a specific example.




On 12/12/2017 11:37 PM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:


I tryed the site as well,

My machine did not hang with Ubuntu 16.04.3 with latest Firefox.

The problem I found was that after 10 minutes of browsing the site and
reading the passage, it slightly became unresponsive.

Secondly, it seems that the site constantly gets updated which implies
that every now and then continuous reading will stop.

happy hacking.

Krishnakant.


On 12/12/2017 02:24 PM, Øyvind 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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