Firefox makes Gnome unresponsive after F16 upgrade

[mikeym]

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone else is experianceing the same problem that I am where after upgrading to Fedora 16 the new Firefox (7.0.1) causes Gnome 3.2 to become largely unresponsive, even with only one tab open?

[MorphingDragon]

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone else is experianceing the same problem that I am where after upgrading to Fedora 16 the new Firefox (7.0.1) causes Gnome 3.2 to become largely unresponsive, even with only one tab open?

Do you have a software RAID running or anything like automated backup software running? When running RSYNC I get that issue, happens in Chrome too.

[Pitfall]

I use Firefox 7.x with Gnome 3.2, but everything is fine here.

[mikeym]

Nope, only LVM.

Actually epiphany was miss-behaving a bit as well. No where as much as Firefox, but epiphany itself would be fairly unresponsive on some pages.

[Salamandra]

As I told in

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...4&postcount=40

System goes very slow for minutes (only mouse pointer works) after f16 upgrade. I am using XFCE and it affects both firefox and midori. It happens on certain webs, for instance the search result of this forum.

[leigh123linux]

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone else is experianceing the same problem that I am where after upgrading to Fedora 16 the new Firefox (7.0.1) causes Gnome 3.2 to become largely unresponsive, even with only one tab open?

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-...html#beprecise

[leigh123linux]

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise

After checking your previous threads I think it's a nvidia driver issue (you should post more info i.e hardware)


Try

su
yum update *\nvidia\* --enablerepo=rpmfusion-*-rawhide
reboot

[mikeym]

leigh123linux, the problem with that is I have absolutely no idea which component of Fedora (being new to it) that is not working.

I've tried my normal techniques to diagnose the problem such as googling for problems with Firefox, running Firefox in a terminal to look for errors,watching top to see if there's something obvious eating up CPU, checking selinux troubleshooter.

None of these have provided me with much more information than I've given. There are no errors reported by Firefox, no obvious bugs listed in google, top shows that Xorg occasionally seems to be eating up too much CPU (occasional bursts of 25% on my quad core seems high), selinux lists 2 entries:

abrt-dump-oops                                                          with 21 occurrences
gnome-session-check-accelerated-helper                with 84 occurrences

But I don't know if those are recent the dates given are Thurs 20th Oct for abrt-dump-oops and Wed 9th Oct for gnome-session-check-accelerated-helper. Assuming dates listed by selinux are the most recent occurrence then I guess they're not the cause of my current problem.

The one major problem I could identify from my upgrade was the "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" error which I followed your NVidia post upgrade guide to make Selinux work which seemed to resolve it.

I can't describe the problem better than that, except perhaps by making a video of the unresponsive behavior.

---------- Post added at 11:49 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:46 AM ----------

leigh123linux Ok, thanks. Trying out that approach.

---------- Post added at 12:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:49 AM ----------

Massive improvement. Thank you leigh123linux.

[fastrizwaan]

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone else is experianceing the same problem that I am where after upgrading to Fedora 16 the new Firefox (7.0.1) causes Gnome 3.2 to become largely unresponsive, even with only one tab open?

Yes, here on nouveau on fedora.linux 3.1.0-7.fc16.i686 #1 SMP Tue Nov 1 21:00:16 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

firefox is kinda freezing; it was not so happening with f15; though I installed f16 fresh.

I'm not using nvidia blob; but why nouveau also?

[u-noneinc-s]

Try

su
yum update *\nvidia\* --enablerepo=rpmfusion-*-rawhide
reboot

Thanks Leigh. I'm back to normal.

Basic sysinfo for those who might need it....
Gigabyte h55m-ud2h MB with I5
2GB 1066 ram (Patriot I think)
nvidia GForce 8500GT/512GPU