On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 02:33:39PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:43:33 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 08:10:07PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > (...) > > > Nope. > > Still hanging....iceweasel hangs a long time just trying to grab pages, > > and I can't even go to another tab or something. The whole browser just > > locks up, for as much as a minute or two, when trying to load a page. > > It's become almost useless. > > I mean, what's the point in tabbed browsing if you can't read one tab > > while waiting for another to load? > > Okay, Tony, before going any further into this, are you sure that your > hard disk and partitions are all fine? Were all the scary messages > finally went away? How about the SMART test? There are no NEW such messages in dmesg. I ran fsck like 3 times, and the last time if finally ended with File system has been modified... and booted up fine without any more messages about a corrupt file system. Everything, except iceweasel, seems to be working normally. In the meantime, I am using SRWare's Iron browser, but would prefer to return to iceweasel. > > If this is all good, then we can go on... if no, your priority should be > the hard disk at first place. > > Now, in regards to your Iceweasel problems, some basic questions: > > - Have you tried with an empty/fresh Icewasel profile? Nope. Not sure how that's done, but, anyway, the reason I want iceweasel back is to have all my bookmarks and settings and saved passwords, etc. > - Have you tried with upstream Firefox? No. Just Iceweasel 14 from backports. I try to use only debian packages. (Ok, I'm using iron, which is not a debian pkg, but our chromium is very old and out of date. Midori, arora, kazehake, and every other browser we have in repos suck. Iceape is working, and I may use that, but still, prefer my iceweasel). > - What does "top" say when system runs slowly? That's the weird part. I run htop. It will say, with iceweasel running, that I'm still only using like 1 or 2% cpu and 2 to 4 % ram. > > The (sluggish) behaviour you're getting is not normal, even more with a > powerful computer like yours where Iceweasel has to run super-smoothly > and flawlessly. It was, in fact, until this recent matter. A friend tells me he also is having similar issues, with iceweasel 14, and they only started after a reboot. Iceweasel was last updated sometime last week, I believe, when I ran updates. I had not rebooted (generally don't) until Saturday, and then this started, after the reboot. I have reinstalled iceweasel a couple of time, but nothing changes. ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time! 3F330C6E
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