Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:48:28 -0400 From: Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org> To: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Twitter.com is loading slowly" after updating to Firefox 13.0.1 Message-ID: <50056D2C.7050508@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20120717145613.20783z1jrv0xapyc@webmail.raad.tartu.ee> References: <20120717145613.20783z1jrv0xapyc@webmail.raad.tartu.ee>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7/17/12 7:56 AM, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hello! > > I'm having this problem on two different computers, one running > 8.3-STABLE and the other running 9.0-STABLE. After updating Firefox > from 12.0 to 13.0.1, whenever I access twitter.com, I can log in > but after that a message appears saying that "Twitter.com is > loading slowly", and the site is practically unusable - clicking on > any of the links has no effect. > > Various support sites say that this may be a problem with Firefox > extensions or plugins, or some difficult-to-find problem which may > be worked around by clearing cache and cookies, or trying with a > new Firefox profile. > > For testing, I have disabled all extensions and plugins. I have > also tried moving my ~/.mozilla directory out of the way so that > new empty profile is created. None of this has helped. The fact > that this is happening on two totally different machines is leading > me to think that maybe this is some peculiarity in a way that > Firefox is compiled on FreeBSD, so I decided to ask if anyone else > is seeing this. > > When updating Firefox to 13.0.1, I didn't change any port > configuration options from what I was using previously: cat > /var/db/ports/firefox/options # This file is auto-generated by > 'make config'. # Options for firefox-13.0.1,1 > _FILE_COMPLETE_OPTIONS_LIST=DBUS PGO DEBUG LOGGING > OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=DBUS OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=PGO > OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=DEBUG OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=LOGGING > OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS > Hi Toomas, I ran into this problem with FF13 on OS X over the weekend, and I fixed it with a suggestion I found somewhere online: Open the about:config preference pane in FF. Change the http.keep-alive property to "true", and you should be all set. Hope that helps, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/cpucycle/ - Follow you, follow me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAFbSwACgkQ0sRouByUApCeEACfbPTah7xWhOUs/KaVp+1Ro409 ryQAoJSPTTfYdrL7UV7NtxvL+egZXnqF =BAb3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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