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Often, with 4 or 5 windows open, maybe 20 tabs total, firefox stutters when vertical scrolling pages.

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arifb
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Often, with 4 or 5 windows open, maybe 20 tabs total, firefox stutters when vertical scrolling pages. A restart fixes it.

I can often work all day with many more tabs than 20 open with no issues. So I'm pretty sure the issue is not a lack of system resources.

This last time I've noticed it, it is after waking my Macbook Air from sleep.

Often, with 4 or 5 windows open, maybe 20 tabs total, firefox stutters when vertical scrolling pages. A restart fixes it. I can often work all day with many more tabs than 20 open with no issues. So I'm pretty sure the issue is not a lack of system resources. This last time I've noticed it, it is after waking my Macbook Air from sleep.

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Ajay Kumar Jogawath
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Hello,

Certain Firefox problems can be solved by performing a Clean reinstall. This means you remove Firefox program files and then reinstall Firefox. Please follow these steps:

Note: You might want to print these steps or view them in another browser.

  1. Download the latest Desktop version of Firefox from http://www.mozilla.org and save the setup file to your computer.
  2. After the download finishes, close all Firefox windows (click Exit from the Firefox or File menu).
  3. Delete the Firefox installation folder, which is located in one of these locations, by default:
    • Windows:
      • C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
      • C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox
    • Mac: Delete Firefox from the Applications folder.
    • Linux: If you installed Firefox with the distro-based package manager, you should use the same way to uninstall it - see Install Firefox on Linux. If you downloaded and installed the binary package from the Firefox download page, simply remove the folder firefox in your home directory.
  4. Now, go ahead and reinstall Firefox:
    1. Double-click the downloaded installation file and go through the steps of the installation wizard.
    2. Once the wizard is finished, choose to directly open Firefox after clicking the Finish button.

Please report back to see if this helped you!

Thank you.

arifb
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Hi AjayJogawath, thanks for your reply, I've just done that, we'll see what happens.

Obviously reinstalling required a restart so the problem looks good now, but again, it always does after a restart.

I'll post back in a few days. If anyone has any other ideas, please let me know, thanks!

cor-el
cor-el
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Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.