Ubuntu :: Firefox Becomes So Sluggish As To Be Unusable
Jul 23, 2010
I've been using Ubuntu 10.4 for nearly a month now and am very happy with it, especially the ability to add and upgrade programmes which up till now was a nightmare with worries about dependencies etc. I do have one major gripe, and that is Firefox 3.6.3. I gather others have had the same problem. At start-up Firefox works fine, but after about 12 hours, it becomes so sluggish as to be unusable. Web pages that would take seconds to download now take minutes and the hard drive starts churning and grinding away. The whole system becomes slow and sluggish, and when I do a "top", Firefox is right at the top. Very often the only way to get out of this is to physically turn the machine off and then back on again, which I know is a bad thing.
Its not as if I am overloading Ubuntu. The last time I had to switch the PC off, all I had running were 2 terminals, a calculator and gedit. Firefox was running about 10 tabs. Even when I do a kill -9 pid on firefox and then restart it, within minutes, the system is grinding away and slowing down. The only way to remedy this is to switch the PC off. Someone else who had this problem says its as is Firefox is getting tired and needs to refresh itself completely. Is there any solution to this problem as I gather others have been experiencing it.
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Mar 14, 2010
I recently noticed that the menus and dropdowns in Firefox 3.6 were *extremely* sluggish on my laptop running Slackware64-current. For example, if I click on "File..." or one of the folders on my quicklinks toolbar, the menus take about a second to appear. No other apps are affected and surfing is as fast as usual.I'm running Slackware64-current on a Fujitsu Lifebook V700. I typically use the Xfce window manager, but was able to repeat the problem in Blackbox.
I uninstalled the Firefox 3.6 package from -current and reinstalled the Firefox 3.5.2 package from the slacware64-13 tree and it works fine.I've been scanning the net for others having this same problem and to my utter shock I can't seem to find anyone else reporting remotely the same problem!I'm fine using Firefox 3.5.2 indefinitely, but it's driving me nuts that I can't figure out the source of this problem!
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Mar 11, 2010
I switched to Chrome half a year back because Firefox had become sluggish on my Linux box (both Ubuntu and OpenSuse). 6 months later and the problem remains - anyone know what is going on and any tips to improve? I still need to use Firefox occasionally for Firebug.
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Mar 22, 2011
I can't quantify the behavior, but every time I run Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (32-bit), I get the impression that I'm using a much slower machine. All I have to compare it to is my Windows 7 64-bit install on the same machine (specs in signature), where almost everything is very snappy by comparison.
I don't have skipping audio or delayed video when watching DVDs in VLC Media Player, and Urban Terror (a 3D game) runs fine, but just general stuff like browsing the filesystem (Nautilus) and Firefox seems reaaaaallly sluggish compared to the Windows 7 counterparts.
What I'm doing at the time does not appear to affect the sluggishness. I have noticed the same impression of sloth both while copying large files, and while doing nothing in particular. That's not how it's supposed to work, is it? Does an Ubuntu install normally slow down over time? I have only been running 10.04 LTS since last October or so.
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Nov 19, 2010
I recently bought a second monitor and I had this set up perfectly fine with two panels on my primary display and one on my secondary. I've now gone away for the weekend (leaving the monitor) and I went to turn on my laptop and it didn't work.
When I login to a gnome session (or indeed a failsafe gnome session) I just got two horizontal white bars (where the panels would be). I switch to a terminal, login and run top and see that gnome-panel is on 100%. Running 'killall gnome-panel' does nothing (tried a few times).
I've had to install xfce4 just to type this message. Is there any way I can 'reset' gnome-panel or any other fix? Or even a workaround would be nice. I'm on 9.10 by the way. I am going to upgrade at some point but its not really an option yet.
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Jun 9, 2010
Having woken her up, she is often very bleary eyed with no energy and little movement. It takes her quite a time to be fully functional. Are there any settings that reduce the time between waking up and full efficiency?
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Jul 9, 2010
Down graded from ubuntu 10 because of phy0 using to much CPU power for no reason machine is sluggish, now it has become worst using Ubuntu 9.10.
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Aug 3, 2010
These are the problems that I have observed:
1. Slow responding to clicks - Test in Mouse Preferences demonstrates it readily; the light bulb does not always light up on first click.
2. Activation of alternate window takes more than one click
3. Click on scrollbar's botton arrow remains activate and continues to move even when mouse is lifted.
4. Scrollbar randomly remains active after click on scrollbar's middle (floating) button even if mouse is move to the window area.
5. After a click on icon or link, often mouse icon changes to a hand icon and the icon moves with the mouse. Difficulty unloading this action - takes several clicks.
6. Highlighting is difficult to cancel once it starts.
This problems started with an update in 9.10 to X (which I was trying). Make the system very unusable.
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Sep 19, 2010
I am running 10.04.1 and despite everything I have tried I cannot suss out why my machine is so slow. It runs fine in the other OS installed but in Ubuntu there is a lag to every action, eg if I drag a window it follows about 3 seconds later. Basically everything is delayed for some reason. It is becoming very annoying and I am contemplating a reinstall, could someone please prevent this. The system is running on an old Athlon 2800 and I have attached a screenshot of running processes.
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Jan 7, 2010
I virtualized XP, and it's rather slow. I allocated 1.5 gb of ram, dynamically expanding storage. When I go to system in control panel, it says my processor is 880 mhz fast. I have an amd64 2.0 dual core.
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Apr 5, 2011
I was using opensuse kde 11.3 for almost one year. My system is a four-core system and so far was really fast. After upgrading from 11.3 to 11.4 I have noticed that kde(?) is running slow. I can pinpoint exactly the source of the problem but just a few examples.
1. Dolphin takes so much time to load (15 seconds)
2. When I try to do something inside dolphin (like Edit->copy) can take up to 15 seconds to see the menu to appear.
3. Double clicking inside a catalog can take up to 5 seconds
I have same kind of problems with Gwenview. I can not say precisely blame kde, dolphin or gwenview.
I would like to ask your help how can I find what's the problem (any cli command, any log file to check?)
I have updates to latest opensuse 11.4 by using the documentation I found in official opensuse forumes. (Changed the repositories from 11.3 to 11.4)
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Oct 7, 2010
I had perfectly working Ubuntu 10.04 system, Last night I tried to upgrade to 10.10 and things did not worked quit well. Before upgrade I took backup of complete system using remastersys on DVD. So I restored my system using that backup and everything was same as before expect one thing and that is my graphics. I am using ati raedon graphics card. Its drivers are install via jokey but I cant enable desktop effects. I tried re-installing drivers but that did not helped.
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Feb 19, 2011
Since support for 8.04 LTS will be ending soon, I decided to move up to 10.04 LTS. On my old Thinkpad A20m laptop, the install went well, and everything seemed to work except the middle trackpoint button. Fixed that easily by editing a conf file. Then I began to notice some problems; all power management options (suspend, idle timers, etc) have no effect. I checked the startup logs and it seems that ACPI was not loading due to my aged bios (yes it's the newest version available). I tried using acpi=force in the boot options, and viola: power management is working. But that made two other problems crop up.
Problem 2: Since using acpi=force, the laptop runs so hot it sometimes gets sluggish and locks up. I tried installing "thinkfan" from
the ubuntu repositories to have some way of easily changing the fan behavior(which I believe relies on ACPI in some fashion). No luck there. ACPI seems to not see my fan at all, and it only kicks on when the bios high temp failsafe is tripped. I should also mention I am using Xubuntu (for the lighter desktop). I'm still kind of an Ubuntu-noob, so I wasn't sure what other info to post.
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Jul 16, 2011
I am currently running 11.04 on my desktop replacing laptop. It has nvidia gtx460 graphics and I'm using the suggested nvidia propietary driver. I was trying out Unity, I didn't like it too much, so I switched to Ubuntu Classic. However, I feel the performance is rather sluggish, in matters such as moving windows and such. For example, even Docky is not fluently moved upon. I wonder whether I should turn some shaders off or what to do. I chose Ubuntu (no effects) with the thought of turning on only the effects I use, such as Desktop Cube, but it doesn't seem to work here (it does in Classic, though it only has 2 desktops there, so it's more of a Rotate Plane). Have any af you had these issues ?
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Apr 21, 2011
I have lots of 720p MKV files which play fine on VLC and/or mplayer. These are the two players I know. Whenever I try to play a 1080p file, the video is sluggish and quickly desynchronizes from the audio (mplayer) or the sound is choppy (vlc). This is because one CPU cannot decode a 1080p x264 video. Not powerful enough. Now, I have a Q6600, with 4 cores. Options in mplayer and VLC to use more than one decoding thread don't seem to do anything at this date, as one core is only user (reported by TOP).
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Jul 26, 2011
My sister's laptop (toshiba satellite l550 running lucid) often runs really, really slow, even after a fresh install. Going through the gnome main menu, everything just lags by several seconds. Closing applications often takes a while, etc. I've run top and iostat to determine what the problem is and it seems to be IO-related. User processes and system processes don't take up more than a few percent, but the average load is usually over 2 even when I'm barely doing anything. Top shows that, whenever everything slows down, the 'wait' criterion is pretty high.
Now, I've also tried installing lucid to an external USB hard drive and that works fine. I'm currently running the S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic and so far I've got the attached screenshot to show. Only the criterion shown and the 'current pending sector count' are showing warnings.Any thoughts? Could the performance issue be related to the hard drive warning? I'm not planning to replace the hard drive just yet, because this laptop still has a two-year warranty.
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Jun 11, 2011
I have a problem with my Debian squeeze system. After I have run some CPU-intensive application for a while the system becomes sluggish. Ok, maybe one would expect that. But. The system remains sluggish even after that process has been killed and then top shows high cpu usage from unrelated processes and a high %sy percentage as well. I don't really know where to begin solving this problem except I've checked that this is specifically related to (at least) CPU use as opposed to heavy memory use or IO (by running an application with low mem/no io but high cpu use). I am running the latest standard kernel from squeeze, 2.6.32-5-686. Also, thing is, I remember having similar problems with other Linux distros before, where for example gzipping a large file would cause the same. I did not have similar problems on {Net,Open}BSD, so a hardware fault seems an unlikely reason to me.
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Sep 26, 2010
Click on scrollbar. Drag down. Watch text crawl by in fits and starts. Don't even think about using the scroll wheel. And this, on a one page RTF document. With no special characters or images or anything.
I tried the instruction here: [URL] It did nothing. How can I make Abiword usable? It doesn't have to be lightning fast, all I want is for it to scroll at the same speed and with the same responsiveness as all my other applications.
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Jul 20, 2010
I have a computer on my network being extremely sluggish and I cannot find the reason why. I can ping and the response time is decent enough at 0.137ms up until something that requires network access is run(cvs, SSH, ls on mounted drives). At that point the ping jumps up to 6000ms, sometimes up to 12000ms.
I have looked through /var/log/messages and found nothing suspicious and I have not seen any problems on other networked computers when accessing the shares. Disk usage on this computer is fine(470GB free) and memory is fine as well(up to 10GB free). The computer is on CentOS 5.3.
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May 12, 2010
It's been a while now I've been experiencing an annoying issue with F12. The thing is that after the machine resumes from suspend (which is otherwise a perfect procedure), video performance (and sometimes audio, through Rhythmbox) reduces and videos play sluggishly. Rebooting the system fixes the issue.
Is there a solution for this behavior (other than rebooting)? Here are the details of my system: F12 x86_64 on an ATI graphics powered machine (Radeon HD3200) which obviously uses the free drivers mesa-drivers-dri-experimental which, otherwise work perfect on this hardware.
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Feb 16, 2010
I have installed Debian 5.0.4 (lenny, kernel version 2.6.26-2-686) on an old Dell desktop box and can't seem to make the graphics card happy. Xorg is using up to 70% cpu causing KDE to be extremely sluggish.
After much googling I initally tried adding these options to the device section in xorg.cong, to no avail.
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
I then discovered DRI was disabled because the Radeon driver was loading before agpgart.
I found this:
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But there was no modules.conf so I had to create a file in modprobe.d instead and it doesn't allow the use of pre-install so I had to change the syntax but agpgart DOES appear to get loaded now as my initial errors about it not loading before the radeon driver are no longer showing up in the logs.
HOWEVER, Xorg is Still killing my cpu and there is no improvement at all.
Now I get these errors instead.
Here is the output of lspci:
I'm pretty new to linux and don't know where to go from here to troubleshoot this problem. Any advice would be appreciated! Let me know if you need more logs or details.
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Aug 20, 2010
operating System: Opensuse version 11.3 (x86_64) Nvidia Driver Version: 256.35 I have been getting sluggish performance while playing games recently as a normal user, although when I switch to a superuser I get great performance.
I have ran the command Glxinfo as a normal user and I get the following output. name of display: :0.0 NVIDIA: - Anonymous - TzhDEdV5 - Pastebin.com When run as a superuser I get the following output. name of display: :0.0 display - Anonymous - 4nb3pDJH - Pastebin.com I have noticed a major difference in output is that as a normal user Direct Rendering is not enabled, though as soon as I log into the super user there is no such error message.
Is there a way that I can enable Direct Rendering as a normal user? I believe that this may be part of the issue.
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May 25, 2010
I've just installed kubuntu 10.04 x64 and I'm slowly working through lots of little niggly problems that I'm having getting it all set up.My graphics seem VERY sluggish doing things like opening and closing windows, popping up menus etc.I have an Athlon II 250 3.0ghz processor, 2GB RAM and onboard graphics ATI HD2100 (740G chipset).I tried to get the proprietary graphics driver installed to see if that made any difference but it wouldn't recognise the onboard graphics, a bit of googling seems to suggest they have actually dropped support for this model?After removing the proprietary stuff it seems even more sluggish than it did before.
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Aug 18, 2011
I have an Intel Core i7 860, 8 GB RAM, with nVidia Quadro NVS 295 graphics card running openSUSE 11.4 with KDE 4.7. Moving, resizing, and minimizing windows, opening the starter menu is sluggish, choppy. It's not that I cannot live with it, but it should be smooth, and that's what bothering me. It seems like I have tried "everything" to fix the problem, disabling the blur effect, the pixmap trick, changing nVidia driver (both the latest beta 285.03, the latest stable 280.13, and the one from the repository, 275.21), and enabling and disabling the things on the "Advanced" tab for desktop effects.
Changing from the Oxygen theme to something else improved it a bit, but it is still very choppy. It seems related to the number of windows I have open. If I have one window open, everything flows nicely, but already with two windows it becomes slow. I have a dual screen (TwinView) setup, but removing the second screen did not improve anything. I'm not very good at the graphics part. I can't stand all the comments about "sluggish Linux graphics" I get from MS Windows users.
These are the top lines I get from glxinfo:
Code:
name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
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Sep 26, 2010
I am using OpenSUSE for the first time. I quite like it but KDE on 11.3 is really giving me a hard time. My desktop becomes very sluggish after about an hour of usage and the KDE widgets/desktop are no longer rendered properly, with color spilling and bloated borders etc.
To give you a better idea, here is a screenshot of my desktop -[url] here's another - [url]
I suspect that this might be an issue with drivers for Intel Graphics, though I couldn't find anyone experiencing exactly the same problem as me. I am running a P4 2.4 GHz with onboard intel graphics.
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May 4, 2010
Like my title states, Compiz or any desktop effects aren't usable for me in 10.04. Never had any problem with any previous release. I'm using the open drivers with my ATI 1950 GT. At first I thought it was due to the fact that I have dual monitors now, but after disabling one and trying again it still acts up.
All I can explain it is it's as if my desktop were "lagging". My mouse cursor will jump and stay in a certain area and I can only move windows a short distance before my mouse pops off and the window jumps back. Minimizing windows also seems like it's a burden on my computer and will take a few seconds to do so.
This is the same setup I've had over various distributions and this is the first time I've experienced it. Anyone have any idea if it's fixable or if my computer is just finally getting too old? I can post the rest of my specs if they're needed.
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May 1, 2011
So if we don't like Unity or the way it crashes with alarming regularity, the fact that it requires multiple mouse clicks to do things we used to do with a couple and the fact that the launcher is not configurable in any meaningful way, we can always go back to Ubuntu Classic, right? Wrong!
Trying to enable desktop effects in Classic under amd64 and NVidia proves something of a nightmare.
1. There is no 'Desktop Effects' tab anymore. We are told that this is no longer necessary as Compiz is running by default.
2. Jockey reports that the NVidia driver is installed and that the driver is activated but 'not currently in use'. This is a bug and has been reported. However, this could tempt people to uninstall and re-install the driver (I am one of these) with disastrous results.
3. Trying to enable things like the Cube and Cube rotation break Compiz and remove *all* the settings in CCSM. Window menus and borders disappear and have to be restored by resetting the Window Manager to Metacity.
4. Getting applications like Radio Tray or Shutter to show in the System Tray involves circuitous circumventing of a 'Whitelist' (which is there for our protection because we shouldn't really want to use applications which put icons in the tray!) is really going to put off people installing applications which then apparently don't work. (They do work, they just become unusable because you cant see them or do anything with them!)
5. Skype will sometimes load and sometimes won't. Sometimes the sound is corrupted and sometimes not. Despite the fact that Skype is proprietary software, many people need to use it. If it becomes unreliable many people will look elsewhere or go back to Wingedows.
6. In both Unity and Classic the task bar will randomly freeze and become unresponsive, requiring a reboot.
Natty Narwhal? More like Natty Dread at the moment. I dread turning it on and it is dreadful. I'll try Gnome 3 or go back to 10.10. I can no longer recommend Ubuntu as a viable alternative to Windows to my customers.
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Apr 5, 2011
I recently built a pc to run 10.04 and EMC2 from linuxcnc.org I havent even gotten to the point of trying out EMC2 on this machine because Ubuntu runs so slow. The build spec's are as follows:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?inv...714-CEL24-PB-R MS-6714 mobo
Intel 2.4ghz celeron processor
2x512 PC-3200 patriot ram
using integrated graphics
40gb Maxtor IDE hd
I installed using the live CD downloaded from linuxcnc.org and Ive used that same cd multiple times so I know that's not my issue. Now to my problems. The computer runs, just very very slow. Opening 2 web pages at the same time takes 2-3 minutes, and if there is a lot of pictures or content there's no point in trying. Running EMC2 works ok, but if I open a complex program in the viewer all bets are off.
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Jul 7, 2011
Since 11.04 was released, I've used it in Gnome and now also KDE, and this problem is in both. Aptitude is completely unusable. The main issue is that when downloading packages, it disconnects every minute if not every half a minute, making package installing a very hard process and making the configuration of a new OS take days (just to install 1GB of packages). Ontop of the disconnections, aptitude doesn't even want to go full speed when it IS connected.
The other issues involve repositories. Whether it's the official Ubuntu package servers, ANY of its many mirrors, or even my own custom PPAs, connecting to ANY repository when I reload my packages is a hit-or-miss, and it's completely impossible to get them all in one refresh (in fact, I don't think I've been able to access the main server since upgrading. Ever. I've been on the US server). This makes installing all of my packages take even LONGER. Also, to add insult to injury, the list files in /var/lib/apt/lists constantly corrupt themselves and make themselves unusable, ESPECIALLY the PPA lists (anything that uses launchpad has to be disabled at all times unless I have to update its program, or else I have to delete those list files every day).
Googling any of these issues separately gets me nowhere, so I'm making a topic, and it better not be the millionth topic I've made here that never got solved. The problem can't be my router or modem because my brother runs aptitude just fine on his 11.04 laptop. This issue is within my computer.
I meant apt-get. You mean they aren't the same program with two ways to run them? Yes, apt-get is the problemed one. I never actually type "aptitude" into the Terminal. As a consequence, Synaptic and KPackageKit and any other apt-get-using program is messed up as well.
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Aug 1, 2011
this time last week I was happily running 10.10. I decided to upgrade to 11.04 via Update Manager (not a fresh install), and of course I didn't like Unity so gave Gnome3 a shot.
Well.. at this point the system would stall whilst booting.. so I downloaded the 11.04 disc and reinstalled it (I desperately need to keep my data and don't have any backup options at the moment).
But, now when I boot into Ubuntu (using an Acer Aspire 5741), the resolution is about 800x600, and the mouse doesn't work. Has anyone got any ideas how I can force Ubuntu to reconfigure the system as if it was a completely new install?
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