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Firefox lagging lagging a ton for a second or two

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I tried the troubleshooting mode, which turns off all the add-ons. Despite that, my Firefox still lags. For example, when I click on a new tab, it takes a couple of seconds to open. When I am typing, it takes a few seconds every now and then to catch up. Additionally, when I am scrolling, it will be unresponsive for a couple of seconds before jumping to where I supposedly scrolled to. I am using Mint Linux Firefox 128.0.3. Processor: 13th Gen Intel© Core™ i7-13700HX × 16. Graphics:

 Device-1: Intel driver: i915 v: kernel
 Device-2: NVIDIA driver: nvidia v: 550.90.07
 Device-3: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Wide Vision HD Camera
   type: USB driver: uvcvideo
 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X:
   loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa gpu: i915
   resolution: 3424x1926~240Hz
 OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (ADL-S GT1)
   v: 4.6 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2
I tried the troubleshooting mode, which turns off all the add-ons. Despite that, my Firefox still lags. For example, when I click on a new tab, it takes a couple of seconds to open. When I am typing, it takes a few seconds every now and then to catch up. Additionally, when I am scrolling, it will be unresponsive for a couple of seconds before jumping to where I supposedly scrolled to. I am using Mint Linux Firefox 128.0.3. Processor: 13th Gen Intel© Core™ i7-13700HX × 16. Graphics: Device-1: Intel driver: i915 v: kernel Device-2: NVIDIA driver: nvidia v: 550.90.07 Device-3: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 3424x1926~240Hz OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (ADL-S GT1) v: 4.6 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2

Isisombulu esikhethiweyo

What Desktop? X11 or Wayland?

Try downloading Firefox from Mozilla. Download, unzip, and run firefox-bin from the folder and see if you have the same issue. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release

Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.6 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0 Qt Version: 5.15.12 Kernel Version: 6.4.0-150600.23.14-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS with Radeon Graphics Memory: 62.1 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics Manufacturer: HP Product Name: HP EliteBook 865 16 inch G9 Notebook PC

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Isisombululo esiKhethiweyo

What Desktop? X11 or Wayland?

Try downloading Firefox from Mozilla. Download, unzip, and run firefox-bin from the folder and see if you have the same issue. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release

Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.6 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0 Qt Version: 5.15.12 Kernel Version: 6.4.0-150600.23.14-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS with Radeon Graphics Memory: 62.1 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics Manufacturer: HP Product Name: HP EliteBook 865 16 inch G9 Notebook PC

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Also try your os or openSUSE on a live usb stick to see if you have the same issue.

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I'm blaming nvidia driver.  ;-))

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jonzn4SUSE said

What Desktop? X11 or Wayland? Try downloading Firefox from Mozilla. Download, unzip, and run firefox-bin from the folder and see if you have the same issue. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.6 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0 Qt Version: 5.15.12 Kernel Version: 6.4.0-150600.23.14-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS with Radeon Graphics Memory: 62.1 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics Manufacturer: HP Product Name: HP EliteBook 865 16 inch G9 Notebook PC


I am not running a desktop; it's on my laptop. https://www.ebay.com/itm/295670937437 Laptop specs: HP Omen 17.3" (1TB SSD, Intel Core i7 13th Gen., 5.00GHz, 16GB) Gaming Laptop - Shadow Black - 83H02UA#ABA

OS: Linux Mint 21.3 x86_64 Host: OMEN by HP Laptop 17-ck2xxx Kernel: 6.5.0-45-generic Uptime: 1 day, 4 hours, 51 mins

Shell: bash 5.1.16 Resolution: 3424x1926 DE: Cinnamon 6.0.4 WM: Mutter (Muffin)

CPU: 13th Gen Intel i7-13700HX (24) GPU: NVIDIA 01:00.0 NVIDIA Corporation GPU: Intel Device 4688 Memory: 5321MiB / 15620MiB

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What happens with the live usb sticks, a different desktop, and Firefox from Mozilla?

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jonzn4SUSE said

What Desktop? X11 or Wayland? Try downloading Firefox from Mozilla. Download, unzip, and run firefox-bin from the folder and see if you have the same issue. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.6 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0 Qt Version: 5.15.12 Kernel Version: 6.4.0-150600.23.14-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS with Radeon Graphics Memory: 62.1 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics Manufacturer: HP Product Name: HP EliteBook 865 16 inch G9 Notebook PC

Weirdly, that worked. I just uninstalled the system package. It's a little inconvenient to launch it every time, but downloading directly from Mozilla worked.

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