Firefox 3.6 slow menus

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Apopatos · Post by **Apopatos** » Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:45 pm

Hi guys,
I installed Firefox 3.6 but the experience is unbearable. It draws the menus so slowly that I cannot even browse my bookmarks...
I Googled around and found that maybe libxcb was the problem. I updated libxcb, re-emerged Firefox but still nothing. I even removed my .mozilla directory to try with a completely new profile without extensions and personal settings, in vain.
Anyone else with the same experience?
I have 64bit system in case it matters.

thanks in advance guys

Apopatos · Post by **Apopatos** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:20 am

It seems I have a unique experience...

schlumpf · Post by **schlumpf** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:44 pm

Hi,
I have the same experience. Only with my system (32 bit), thunderbird is also affected; I did a "emerge -vDau world" and now some programs are awfully slow (firefox, thunderbird), but others are not (emacs, xterm). For example, when you drag an xter window over the firefox, the xterm is drawn nicely, while firefox shows the of remains of the xterm's border and really takes several seconds! to redraw. Same when I click a link or simly try to focus a text input field on a web page. When I'm in the text field, typing is fast, and playing youtoube videos works as well, funny as it is.
When I look at the process list, I see the X server takes 100% of one CPU, while the other CPU does nothing.
I played with the use-flags, recompiled the newest kernel, ... I don't know what to do any more, can anyone help?

schlumpf · Post by **schlumpf** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:38 pm

Finally I found the solution: somehow the new kernel "forgot" the config option for compiling a specific module required for using DRM with my graphics adapter (i915). Now I configured it correctly and everything works smoothly again... jipiieh!

pxta009 · Post by **pxta009** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:59 pm

Thanks guys... this saved me a lot of time

ranger719 · Post by **ranger719** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:56 pm

Same here, every menu which opens takes a few seconds (right click, menu-bar, ...). But this has nothing to do with DRM, imho -- at least on my system. The menus render fine, but they just take time to show/pop up (no high cpu-usage). I am on 64bit, too. The only application that behaves that way is FF 3.6, at least that I know of. Most GUI-applications on my system are based on QT, so I might miss something here. Maybe it's some GTK issue.

If someone knows more, pls post it.

Post by **NeddySeagoon** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 11:14 am

Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Desktop Environments.

Apopatos · Post by **Apopatos** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:19 pm

What's the solution? I've not seen one.

I suspect it's a problem with xulrunner-1.9.2 and affects and the other xulrunner apps like songbird and thunderbird.
I tried to compile Firefox-3.6 on top of xulrunner 1.9.7 without success.

ghutzl · Post by **ghutzl** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:55 am

Hello!

I have the same or at least a similar problem:

When I run firefox 3.6-r1 on my pc locally everything is fine. I am using the nvidia driver there. But when I access my pc remotely via x2go the menus are behaving like described previously in this thread. The menus pop up after 5 sec. or so. This happens for the main firefox menus and also for the bookmarks menu popups in my bookmarks toolbar.

I have downgraded to firefox 3.5.6 and eveything is fine again. The menus are as quick as always with x2go.

I have searched the web for any reference to this behaviour but did not find anything yet. Maybe this should be reported upstream?

earendilion · Post by **earendilion** » Fri May 28, 2010 7:48 am

So, did anyone find how to fix this ?

I have this problem since I upgraded to 3.6, but didn't find any solution... My Firefox is working well on my laptop (nVidia Graphics), but is really slow on my desktop (ATI with the free driver) pc...

VinzC · Post by **VinzC** » Fri May 28, 2010 9:03 am

I also had troubles with Firefox 3.6 right after I upgraded from 3.5*. E.g. scrolling was unbearably lagging -- even with smooth scrolling disabled. I downgraded back to 3.5.8 without investigating any further.

Redhatter · Post by **Redhatter** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:12 pm

I've been facing this on my AMD64 desktop for a while now.

My observations:

It seems to only affect xulrunner-based applications (Thunderbird and Firefox). Pure GTK+ apps like Gimp and gvim are not affected. Qt apps are not affected.
The problem for me seems to occur after resuming the system from suspend-to-{ram,disk}
The problem disappears when I restart X

My desktop configuration:

AMD Phenom II X6 1050T CPU
ATI RadeonHD 4350 (RV710)
ATI SB700 motherboard chipset
Linux kernel 2.6.37.2 (git kernel tag 'v2.6.37.2' from gregkh's linux-2.6-stable.git tree.
X.org server 1.9.4
x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.14.0

Some reports seem to point the finger at cairo and Firefox 3.6. My response has always been to just restart X or just leave the machine running, but both are a nuisance because one relies on me having to log out and log back in, the other needlessly chews power.

krc · Post by **krc** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:56 pm

My system was also affect by extreme performance regression. Specifically, every mouse-over event on the File/Edit/View/History.etc.. menus output the following line to the console:

socket(): Address family not supported by protocol

Discovered PulseAudio was attempting to connect to the DBus daemon (perhaps with IPV6). It seems odd that firefox (or xulrunner) would be making calls to Pulse Audio for menu actions, but I digress.

The quick fix was to disable the 'dbus' use flag for Pulse Audio. This has had no ill effects on my relatively static desktop setup, but might affect folks who dynamically plug-in external USB audio devices, like a webcam.

Here are the relevant use flags:

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net-libs/xulrunner alsa custom-optimization libnotify -dbus -gnome -ipc -java -startup-notification -system-sqlite -wifi

www-client/firefox alsa bindist custom-optimization libnotify -dbus -ipc

media-sound/pulseaudio alsa glib libsamplerate udev -X -asyncns -avahi -bluetooth -caps -dbus -doc -gnome -ipv6 -jack -lirc -oss -realtime -system-wide -tcpd -test

Probably unneeded, but I turned on garbage collection flags when compiling Pulse Audio, to strip out any unreferened external function calls/symbols. FYI, I'm using gcc-4.5.2.

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CFLAGS="-march=native -O3 -mfpmath=sse -mssse3 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fmerge-all-constants -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
FFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -Wl,--gc-sections"

Firefox menus are blazing fast now.

chiefbag · Post by **chiefbag** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 8:06 pm

I was having problems running on 64 bit and found it was virtually unusable, tried going down the route of disabling all plugins and uninstalling flash etc but to no avail.
I unmasked firefox 4 about 2 weeks ago and have not looked back since.
There seems to be some serious issues with 3.6 somewhere.

Firefox 3.6 slow menus

Firefox 3.6 slow menus

thunderbird also affected