Russell L. Harris wrote:
Occasionally while browsing with iceweasel, the machine slows to a crawl
I've been running Drupal sites for 2+ years, and haven't had browser issues when browsing them with Ice Weasel. (I have experienced Drupal and hosting issues.)
Currently, my system bogs down when I use Ice Weasel to browse Yahoo! Groups. This is especially noticeable when I an entering data into a textarea control and Yahoo! seems to be spell-checking each and every keystroke. I haven't tried any other browsers or platforms.
My guess is that the problem has something to do with JavaScript -- flaws in the site's JavaScript code and/or flaws in Ice Weasel's JavaScript engine.
HTH, David