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Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds



To close this thread:

I removed the torbutton addon taken directly from mozilla.org and
installed the Debian torbutton package.  It works.  No more hangs.

Jack Dodds wrote:
> Hello Sun,
>
> Thank you for telling me about safe mode - I did not know about it.
>
> Sure enough, the problem seems to disappear in safe mode.
>
> I compared my profile with another user's profile.  That user had not
> noticed the "hang" problem.  The only difference in the profiles is that
> the other profile did not have Torbutton.  So I uninstalled Torbutton
> from my profile.  After 1 hour of use, I have not noticed the "hang"
> problem.
>
> Checking further, I found that I did not have Debian package
> iceweasel-torbutton installed on my system.  I must have installed it
> direct from the mozilla website, which may have caused the problem.
>
> After some further testing, I will install the Debian
> iceweasel-torbutton package and see if I can use it without problems.
>
> Thanks also to the others who commented.
>
> Jack Dodds
>
>
> Wu-Kung Sun wrote:
>   
>> I would suggest browsing in safe mode.  If the problem persists, file
>> a bug. If not, create a new profile and one at time  add the same
>> addons from your other profile until the problem shows up again.
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
>
>   

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