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Firefox freezes on multiple wordpress tabs opened

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peterbra
peterbra
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When opening a few admin WP tabs - FFox freezes for a few seconds - it started with 36.0 I've re-installed FFox and it's still "buggy". Memory usage is about 65% and CPU about 55% when that happens. It happens on "vanilla" install (no addons installed). My best guess it's java-script issue of some sort - when browsing pages without ajax JS - everything is ok, but on WP admin pages ( wp uses a lot of ajax calls) it "freezes"... Same thing I tried to replicate on Chrome - and Chrome works without problems .... Please FIX this as I prefer FFox !

When opening a few admin WP tabs - FFox freezes for a few seconds - it started with 36.0 I've re-installed FFox and it's still "buggy". Memory usage is about 65% and CPU about 55% when that happens. It happens on "vanilla" install (no addons installed). My best guess it's java-script issue of some sort - when browsing pages without ajax JS - everything is ok, but on WP admin pages ( wp uses a lot of ajax calls) it "freezes"... Same thing I tried to replicate on Chrome - and Chrome works without problems .... Please FIX this as I prefer FFox !

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guigs
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Hi peterbra, Thank you for your question, I understand that Firefox freezes on the wp admin panel. Please make sure your word press is up to date.

I checked and it seems to work for my test account. Does this happen in Safe Mode? Use Troubleshoot Mode in Firefox

Krammig
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Same here. It is really frustrating when this occurs.

I do not experience this issue at all when I use Chrome to do the same task. Thus I have been using Chrome when working on our Wordpress site.

I would prefer using Firefox as a again it is a hassle having to switch between the two browsers.

guigs
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I understand that this is frustrating, however in order to investigate and narrow down the root cause, please open up a question in webcompat.com. As I can only suggest these troubleshooting steps for performance in Firefox:

Thank you for elaborating. Currently the Nightly version of Firefox update more often then the stable releases of Firefox. It is on a rapid release cycle.

Do you happen to have the version number of nightly when this started happening? This can help create a regression window :-)

If you are interested in providing a website example this could help create a bug. With the websites, there are have these tools to test the performance of the profile as well: This will test the javascript engine on desktop: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d.../Reporting_a_Performance_Problem and for android local host builds these test can be reproduced here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d.../Profiling_with_the_Built-in_Profiler#Profiling_Firefox_mobile

We look forward to your reply