[Bug 231384] Re: Firefox is extremely slow to respond; starts in about 4 min, gtk-damaged?

[John Vivirito]

ANDREA wrote:
> output of ifconfig: 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:d4:ac:e3:26
>           inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::213:d4ff:feac:e326/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:87 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:101 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:59558 (58.1 KB)  TX bytes:8517 (8.3 KB)
>           Interrupt:21 Base address:0xe400
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:900 (900.0 B)  TX bytes:900 (900.0 B)
> 
> as for the proposed version (rc1) ... no real improvement. it took 16
> minutes to load and after exiting the welcome page it is currently yet
> again frozen. all extensions got automatically disabled by the upgrade
> so that's not really keeping it up that long either. it could be a local
> error if so i'd appreciate hints a lot! thank you in advance!!!!
> 
> update: 
> i've closed firefox as it wouldn't react anymore and i have just eliminated my local profile (~/.mozilla/firefox/) but it's still not loading. on my laptop though it is ... weird. should i try to kdiff3 on installed packages? (i mean do something like sudo dpkg --get-selections > desktop.txt and same for the laptop and compare?) [firefox still isn't up - 4 min later]
> 
Can you reproduce this by running firefox -safe-mode from terminal?

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Sincerely Yours,
     John Vivirito

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Firefox is extremely slow to respond; starts in about 4 min, gtk-damaged?
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